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Meanings of wampum in English
Spanish
wampum Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.
Synonyms
Examples for "bread"
Examples for "bread"
1
That list included meats and fish, vegetables, dairy products, bread and spices.
2
We need to give them justice, bread, access to hospitals, he said.
3
Of course, it ain't yeast bread; all the yeast has gone over.
4
Place the bread in the soup-tureen and pour the soup over it.
5
We need water, wine, bread, cheese and anything else you can spare.
1
They have responded to the tough sugar market conditions in different ways.
2
After water, sugar is, of course, the major ingredient in its product.
3
Clearly, the oil, tobacco and sugar industries don't want their products restricted.
4
In Brazil sugar was the great slave labor staple; in America, cotton.
5
Groceries often sent home include cooking oil, sugar, rice, and washing powder.
1
The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
2
Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
3
This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
4
Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
5
The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
1
Continue to work your way around the dough, repeating this four times.
2
Cover bowl when dough thickens; allow dough to rise for 1 hour.
3
You hardly need to be told the main source of that dough.
4
Lula gazed into the doughnut box, thinking ahead to doughnut number three.
5
The dough in the above may be used with the following filling:
1
Other good sources of calcium include dairy products, Chinese cabbage, and sardines.
2
Spare lived on in the old hut, and worked in the cabbage-garden.
3
The steel price in China is now cheaper per tonne than cabbage.
4
Good solid bacon and cabbage medicine that is always there when needed.
5
Tip: Do try to use organic cabbage if you can find it.
1
Add the lettuce and stir until just wilted, about 1 minute longer.
2
Place the shredded lettuce in the nest and then the prepared salmon.
3
At one time, salad meant simply lettuce, spinach, and maybe Swiss chard.
4
Place the asparagus tips in an orderly pile on the lettuce leaf.
5
Potatoes and tomatoes in alternate layers may take the place of lettuce.
1
Photo: Lucas Marshall The loot looks good for the climbers this year.
2
I just hope nobody decides to loot this place while we're away.
3
Meanwhile the main body of the Martians proceeded to explore and loot.
4
Whittle's loot hadn't been money and watches, but parts taken from Mary.
5
He left the tavern at first light, taking his loot with him.
1
Remove the clams from the pan and serve them in the shells.
2
Losses of oysters, clams and scallops have run into millions of animals.
3
Strain the liquid through cheesecloth, and then scald the clams in it.
4
Then add the water strained from the clams and the fried pork.
5
Take the juice of a lemon and threaten the clams with it.
1
M&S says it has trebled the number of kale products its sells.
2
Pour boiling water over the kale, then refresh in ice cold water.
3
Add kale and cook over medium-high heat until tender, about 6 minutes.
4
Go into the garden just as we did to pull the kale.
5
Tunnel-vision scientists assume it's the isolated elements in the kale that matter.
1
The retirement plan cost was 25 million shekels in the April-June period.
2
Following the sale, Discount's shareholders' equity will increase by 254 million shekels.
3
The heavily indebted airline has a market cap of 350 million shekels.
4
I have put to his order six thousand shekels for the purpose.
5
Internet Gold will also be contributing 310 million shekels towards bond repayment.
1
This is not criticism, but a prejudice in favor of fantastic lolly-pops.
2
And I had a red ice lolly from an ice cream van.
3
Ask for some lolly cake and get ready to have your mind blown.
4
But, when it comes to opening lolly, it's no Mrs Brown.
5
Perfect for lots of lolly, if you know what I mean, grinned Brennie.
1
Jory, having again expressed some low ideas about lucre, aroused general indignation.
2
The desire of this family to obtain filthy lucre was too great.
3
How many of your sex have sold their honor for paltry lucre.
4
Filthy lucre informed much of the debate on Irish television this week.
5
The issue of filthy lucre is about to rear its ugly head.
1
Still, boodle does not map out all the social metes and bounds.
2
We had to have that paper of his to find the boodle.
3
Hand 'em back the boodle; and maybe they'll let you off light.
4
Meanwhile, Bunny, I may call upon you to dispose of the boodle.
5
The aristocracies of birth and boodle are sham counterfeits gotten up by man.
1
The feverish desire for place, pelf and power was not upon them.
2
Now I have done with the pelf, which must take its chance.
3
Have ye heaped, through many wearying months, your glittering pile of pelf.
4
Fear prompts him to ask, and Greed-greed for power, place and pelf-answers
5
The ruling passion of the age: worship of self and worship of pelf.
1
Manage it in one go and I'll slip you a bit more moolah.
2
Government is where the moolah is so that's where they can steal the most.
3
Nah this isn't about the end of the world, it's just about the moolah.
4
Here's a breakdown of where I spent my moolah and mostly importantly -why.
5
Check out some of the areas the party believes it could save some serious moolah:
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He would allow the liquor dealer his bottles and gelt just not to be him.
2
I'd give seven hundred cases in bar gelt if he was in Congress to-day, Mrs.
3
The Calroza Sisters are sure some lookers and will give you a run for your gelt.
4
I mean to make these Antrim farmers as tame as gelt cats before I've done with them.
5
It's Chanukah, and I am eating white chocolate gelt at the moment, which is cooler than cool.
1
He asked for a brew but declined the dinero.
2
These monkeys are virus-free and worth mucho dinero.
3
And what had all that dinero yielded?
4
Not a dinero left.
5
So it's conceptually like watching a YouTube video, except eyeballing Threes' ads generates virtual dinero that you spend on playtime.
1
After I'm dead an' buried I don't want no other dead one spendin' my simoleons.
2
A thousand dollars, von thousand simoleons.
3
Old Finklebaum would have taken the case out of my hands, and fooled me out of my hundred simoleons.
4
But I live on it and put a few simoleons every week under the loose brick in the old kitchen hearth.
5
Type it in during cheat mode and it gets you 1,000 Simoleons.
Usage of wampum in English
1
Among the Indians, strings of wampum paid for goods, marriage proposals, tribute.
2
Marie, in the following words, accompanying them with a string of wampum:-
3
They appealed to this treaty, and to the evidence of the wampum-belts.
4
This wampum was given to me that I might remain in peace.
5
Got paid in wampum once, and one time I took a horse.
6
And it was probably a fairly attractive proposition, too, involving green wampum.
7
The old man had many rare furs and valued strings of wampum.
8
Forty rolls of wampum and twenty pounds of powder were also taken.
9
Upon her head she wore a crown of black and white wampum.
10
He once had a wampum cap which was fastened to his scalp.
11
It had been a while since he'd looked at the wampum belt.
12
Their belts were heavy with wampum, their hearts were heavy with hate.
13
In the meantime I will wrap it in a badge of wampum!
14
I came back to his bedside and drew out the wampum belt.
15
For four hundred years the wampum belts have been sacred among the Iroquois.
16
She also hangs wampum or bits of abalone shell on the finest ones.
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Wampum across language varieties
United Kingdom
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