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sagamore|ˈsægəmɔə(r)|
Also 7 sagamos, sagomo, sagomore, saggamore, segamore, sagamor, 7–8 sagamo, 8 sachemore.
[a. Penobscot sagamo: see sachem.]
= sachem 1.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 750 He obserued a feast made by Anadabijon the great Sagamo, in his Cabin. Ibid. 756 When a Sagamos dieth, they blacke themselues. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 240 The Massachusets call..their kings there abouts Sachems: the Penobscotes..their kings Sagomos. 1642T. Lechford Plain Dealer (1867) 115 They are governed by sachems, kings, and saggamores, petie lords. 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 1017/1 King Philip the Indian Segamore of those parts, had raised about six hundred Men in Arms. 1751C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 72 This Beaver is the Sachemore or Chief of the Delawares. 1826J. F. Cooper Mohicans xxx, Uncas,..the wisest Sagamore of the Indians! 1865Parkman Champlain iv. (1875) 246 But the vision of the centenarian sagamore put them all to shame.
transf.1882Dowden in Academy 30 Dec. 464/1 But readers on this side of the Atlantic cannot be supposed to owe allegiance to every local sagamore of learning or Puritan pow-wow of the old colonial days.
†b. sagamore's head: ? some American tree.
1741P. Collinson in Mem. Bartram (1849) 148 The butter-nut..with the Medlar and Sagamore's head.
Hence † ˈsagamoreship.
1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 123 The three Kingdoms or Sagamoreships of the Mattachusets were very populous, having under them seven Dukedoms or petti-Sagamoreships. |