Montauk
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Mon·tauk
(mŏn'tôk') 
n., pl., Montauk, or -tauks.
n., pl., Montauk, or -tauks.
- A Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern end of Long Island in New York.
- A member of this people.
- The Algonquian language of the Montauk, dialectally related to Mohegan and Pequot.
- A member of any of various Algonquian peoples of eastern and central Long Island connected with the Montauk.
[From a place name of Montauk origin.]
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