wampum meaning in English
n.
1.(以前印第安人作货币或饰品的)贝壳串珠。
2.〔美俚〕钱。
Examples
- I brought some wampum from north america
我从北美买了一些贝壳串珠。 - Wampum circulated as legal tender for private debts in massachusetts until 1661 and was used as money in new york as late as 1701
贝壳数珠在马萨诸塞作为法定货币用来清偿私人债务一直流通到1661年，在纽约作为货币使用知道1701年。 - In the american colonies one of the earliest forms of money , borrowed from the indians , was wampum , black and white polished beads made from clam shells
美洲殖民地最早的一种货币形式是借用印第安人的贝壳数珠，一种蚌壳磨成的黑白珠子。 - Time they were stopping up in the city arms pisser burke told me there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew and bloom trying to get the soft side of her doing the mollycoddle playing bzique to come in for a bit of the wampum in her will and not eating meat of a friday because the old one was always thumping her craw and taking the lout out for a walk
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