Similar words: swamp, swampy, swamped, campus, amputee, amputate, swam, wigwam. Meaning: n. 1. informal terms for money 2. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.
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1. Have you checked out the price of wampum these days?
2. Wampum was made of seashells.
3. I brought some wampum from North America.
4. They paid a lot of wampum for the job.
5. Here is how to make your own wampum.
6. How much is your wampum worth?
7. The Lenape (also called the Lenni-Lenape) used wampum in ceremonies, as diplomatic gifts, and for trading with the Europeans.
8. At last, create your wampum by stringing purple and white macaroni.
9. Open a little store and use your wampum for money!
10. Wampum circulated as legal tender for private debts in Massachusetts until 1661 and was used as money in New York as late as 1701.
11. To make wampum, they sewed tiny black, purple, and white beads made from seashells into belts.
12. The Lenape used a money system of their own invention called "wampum."
13. The Indian money was called wampum and consisted of strings of beads made from the shells of clams and other shellfish.sentencedict.com/wampum.html
14. Here in the north-eastern woodlands of the US we made wampum, shell beads strung in patterns to record events.
15. At one point, the Dutch -- eager to improve their profits -- produced their own wampum in Holland, hoping to use it back in New Amsterdam to trade with the natives.
16. One of the earliest forms of money, borrowed from the Indians, was wampum, black and white polished beads made from clam shells.
17. At first they copied the Native Americans and used wampum.
18. However, these slaves had to pay the Company every year -- usually in the form of grain, furs, or wampum -- and their children were considered "full slaves."
19. Authorities said the boy is the son of the victim's live-in boyfriend at the home in Wampum, about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
20. Since European governments forbade colonists to produce their own currency in the New World, Dutch and British merchants there also adopted wampum as a system of money.