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Sachem
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Sachem
SA'CHEM
,Noun.
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sachem
sachem
English
Noun
sachem (plural sachems)
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16