Look up: wampum

1. Wampum
   An Indian term for belts of small beads or shells that were used as money. Many mountain men adopted this term to mean all money.
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2. Wampum
   String of shells used as money and gifts.
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3. wampum
   [n] - small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans 2. [n] - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry
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4. wampum
   Cylindrical beads ground from sea shells of white and purple, woven into articles of personal adornment and also used as money by American Indians of the northeastern woodlands. Wampum was also used...
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5. Wampum
   Wam'pum noun [ North American Indian wampum , wompam , from the Mass. wómpi , Del. wāpe , white.] Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. &#...
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6. wampum
   Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc, as an ornament. 'Round his waist his belt of wampum.' (Longfellow) 'Girded with his wampum braid.' (Whittier) ... These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The ter...
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7. wampum
   peag noun small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
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8. Wampum
   • (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
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9. wampum
   tubular shell beads that have been assembled into strings or woven into belts or embroidered ornaments, formerly used as a medium of exchange by ... [1 related articles]
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10. wampum
    wampum (wäm'pum) [New England Algonquian,=white string of beads], beads or disks made by Native Americans from the shells of mollusks found on the eastern coast or along the larger rivers of North America, used as a medium of exchange and in jewelry. Considered sacred, it was also used in a...
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11. Wampum
    Wampum, or Wompan, is an American Indian word meaning 'strings of white beads'. Wampum was used as money, according to tradition, first by the Narragansett Indians and was afterward generally adopted by the Indians along the eastern coast as a medium of exchange. It was also used as money by the col...
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12. Wampum
    The wampum is a broad belt formed of strings of shells and worn as an ornament or girdle by North American Indians. The name was also given to the interior parts of the clam shell which was used as currency among some Indians.
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13. wampum
    Cylindrical beads ground from sea shells of white and purple, woven into articles of personal adornment and also used as money by American Indians of the northeastern woodlands. Wampum was also used for sealing treaties and as a means of recording important events. Broad belts or collars were formed...
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14. Wampum
    `Wampum` are traditional, sacred shell beads of Eastern Woodlands tribes. They include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell; and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Woven belts of wampum have been crea...
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