Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WOOD-SHOCK, n.

The wejack, a quadruped of the weasel kind in North America. It is the Mustela Canadensis of Linnæus, a digitigrade carnivorous mammal, sometime called Pekan, Otchock, Fisher Weasel, etc. It is found from Pennsylvania to the Great-Slave-Lake, and across the continent to the shores of the Pacific.