Sentence example with the word 'wampum'

wampum

anklet, bracelet, cash, coin, dough, green, locket, oil of palms, rhino, spondulics, torque

Definition n. informal terms for money

Last update: July 11, 2015


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The site of the township was purchased from the Indians in 1640 by Roger Ludlow and Daniel Patrick, Ludlow giving six fathoms of wampum, six coats, ten hatchets, ten hoes, ten knives, ten scissors, ten jew's harps, ten fathoms of tobacco, three kettles of six hands, and about ten looking-glasses for all the land between the Norwalk and Saugatuck rivers and extending one day's walk N.   [Please select]

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"Take you the wampum, and our love."   [Please select]

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He will then make a speech, and offer a belt of wampum as a peace-offering.   [Please select]

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Wampum means more to the Indian than money to the white man.   [Please select]

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An Indian would spend thirty days in perfecting a single bit of shell into fine wampum.   [Please select]

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Would the relatives of the dead Mohawks consider the wampum belts full compensation.   [Please select]

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