n. A chief of several Native American tribes, especially of the Algonquians.
n. A juice used in medicine.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
n. A juice used in medicine.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A king or chief among some tribes of American Indians.
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n. a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)
Word Usage
"In a subsequent mission for Governor William Bradford that summer, Squanto was captured by Wampanoag while gathering intelligence on the renegade sagamore, Corbitant, at the village of Nemasket site of present-day Middleborough, Massachusetts."