mussuck means an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, mussuck ranks #366 of 20,721 for Qualifying.
mussuck is pronounced /ˈmʌsək/.
Etymology
From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /mašk/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /maškā/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”).
noun
- an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties.“In that form of sunstroke where the person is struck down suddenly by a hot sun, the patient should be removed into the shade, and the douche of cold water being allowed to fall in a stream on the head and body, from a pump (or, as in India, from the mussuck, or other similar contrivance should be freely resorted to, the object being two-fold: to reduce the temperature of the over-heated centres, ”