WAMPUM
\wˈampəm], \wˈampəm], \w_ˈa_m_p_ə_m]\
Definitions of WAMPUM
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans
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small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The North American Indian name for shells or beads used as money and as tokens of treaties and alliances between tribes.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Beads formed of shells strung on threads, formerly used by the American Indians as currency, and worn also as ornaments.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Small beads made of different coloured shells, used by the N. American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, &c., as an ornament.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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