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Ti·con·dero·ga (tī kän′də rō′gə, tī′kän-)

former fort in NE N.Y., taken from the British by the Green Mountain Boys in 1775

Etymology: Mohawk tekontaró:ken, lit., at the junction of two waterways

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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