Merikin
English
Etymology
Aphetic form of American.
Noun
Merikin (plural Merikins)
- (historical) One of the African-American refugees of the War of 1812: freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and then, after post-war service in Bermuda, were established as a community in the south of Trinidad in 1815–16.
Anagrams
- Knierim