'Wampum' definitions:
Definition of 'wampum'
(from WordNet)
noun
Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
noun
Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency [syn: wampum, peag, wampumpeag]
Definition of 'Wampum'
From: GCIDE
- Wampum \Wam"pum\, n. [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. w['o]mpi, Del. w[=a]pe, white.] Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. [1913 Webster]
- Round his waist his belt of wampum. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- Girded with his wampum braid. --Whittier. [1913 Webster]
- Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'wampum'
From: GCIDE
- Seawan \Sea"wan\, Seawant \Sea"want\, n. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'wampum'
From: GCIDE
- Seawan \Sea"wan\, Seawant \Sea"want\, n. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wampum'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anklet,
- armlet,
- bangle,
- beads,
- bijou,
- blunt,
- boodle,
- bracelet,
- brass,
- bread,
- breastpin,
- brooch,
- bucks,
- cabbage,
- cash,
- chain,
- chaplet,
- charm,
- chatelaine,
- chips,
- circle,
- coin,
- coronet,
- cowrie,
- crown,
- currency,
- diadem,
- dinero,
- dough,
- earring,
- fob,
- gelt,
- gem,
- gilt,
- grease,
- green,
- green stuff,
- greenbacks,
- jack,
- jewel,
- kale,
- legal tender,
- locket,
- lucre,
- mazuma,
- moolah,
- mopus,
- necklace,
- nose ring,
- oil of palms,
- ointment,
- oof,
- ooftish,
- pin,
- precious stone,
- rhinestone,
- rhino,
- ring,
- roanoke,
- rocks,
- sewan,
- shekels,
- simoleons,
- spondulics,
- stickpin,
- stone,
- sugar,
- the needful,
- tiara,
- tin,
- torque,
- wristband,
- wristlet
Wampum, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wampum, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000) :
678
Housing Units (2000) :
310
Land area (2000) :
0.921043 sq. miles (2.385490 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.042833 sq. miles (0.110937 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.963876 sq. miles (2.496427 sq. km)
FIPS code :
80880
Located within :
Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location :
40.888657 N, 80.339650 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
16157
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.