LekhoriLekhoriA mastodon.
Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth, now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale.
Something very large of its kind.
The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth": […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.
A kind of large donkey.
Mammoths are taller than 54 inches. Each can carry up to 25% of its weight in combined tack, supplies, and rider.
Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
I recieved [sic] from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.
From obsolete Russian ма́мант (mámant), modern ма́монт (mámont), probably from a Uralic word, such as Proto-Mansi *mān-oŋt (“earth horn”). Possibly influenced by behemoth. Adjectival use was populariz...
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