wampum 音标拼音: [w'ɑmpəm]
n . 贝壳念珠;金钱
贝壳念珠;金钱
wampum n 1 :
informal terms for money [
synonym : {
boodle }, {
bread },
{
cabbage }, {
clams }, {
dinero }, {
dough }, {
gelt }, {
kale },
{
lettuce }, {
lolly }, {
lucre }, {
loot }, {
moolah }, {
pelf },
{
scratch }, {
shekels }, {
simoleons }, {
sugar }, {
wampum }]
2 :
small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts ;
used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency [
synonym : {
wampum },
{
peag }, {
wampumpeag }]
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 ]
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 ]
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "
wampum ":
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
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