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Webster 1913 Edition


Sachem

Sa′chem

(să′chem)
,
Noun.
A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.
See
Sagamore
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sachem

SA'CHEM

,
Noun.
In America, a chief among some of the native Indian tribes. [See Sagamore.]

Definition 2024


sachem

sachem

English

Noun

sachem (plural sachems)

  1. A chief of a tribe of the American Natives; a sagamore.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
      Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head.

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