Mohawk

noun (plural same or Mohawks)

• 1a member of an American Indian people, one of the Five Nations, originally inhabiting parts of eastern New York.

• 2the Iroquoian language of the Mohawk.

• 3a hairstyle with the head shaved except for a strip of hair from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck, typically stiffened to stand erect or in spikes.

  [erroneously associated with the Mohawk people (see Huron)]

• 4 Figure Skating a step from either edge of the skate to the same edge on the other foot in the opposite direction.

adjective

• relating to the Mohawk or their language.