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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) wampum
cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and spiritual purposes.

2. wampum
Informal.

Etymology: (1620–30, Amer.; < Massachusett, c. Eastern Abenaki w&agracute;p&agr;p&schwa;yak wampum beads = Proto-Algonquian *wa&raiseddot;p- white +*-a&raiseddot;py- string +*-aki pl. suffix)

Definition of 'wampum'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
informal terms for money

2. (noun) wampum, peag, wampumpeag
small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

Definition of 'wampum'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) wampum
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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