Around New Zealand and Australia sheep shearers make for themselves footware consisting of part of a cured sheepskin using the wool in to apply when working; these mocassin protect a feet, provide proficient grip in wooden floors & absorb a sweat of a wearer when non hurting the brute.

Inside botany, the lady's slipper is known in the United States of America, as the moccasin flower, from its resemblance to a shoe or moccasin.

A title mocassin is besides given to the venomous snake found when far n as North Carolina and westward to the Rocky Mountains, and popularly known as cottonmouth moccasin from either a whiten rim in a mouth. It belongs to the personal Crotalidae, species Ancistrodon (or Cenchris) piscivorus, is about ii feet hanker & is typically witnessed inside miry land. These are occasionally known as a water moccasin to distinguish it from a upland moccasin (Ancistrodon contortrix or atrofuscus), which is unremarkably known as copperhead & is detected farther northerly around prohibitionist & mountainous regions. a title is even a distinct word of which the origin has non been traced.

There is a place known as Moccasin Bend near Chattanooga, Tennessee.