Calumet meaning

kăl'yə-mĕt', -mĭt, kăl'yə-mĕt'
A long-stemmed sacred or ceremonial tobacco pipe used by certain Native American peoples.
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A major industrial region of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan adjacent to Chicago.
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A long-stemmed ceremonial pipe smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
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A clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.

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Origin of calumet

From a Norman variant of Old French chalumeau (imported to Canada with Norman colonists), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kalamos).

Sentence Examples

  • The civilized Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians live principally in Calumet county.

  • Of these the largest is Lake Winnebago, between Calumet, Outagamie, Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties, with an extreme length of 30 m.

  • Three other shafts of the Tamarack Company, and three of the neighbouring Calumet and Hecla mine, have depths of between 4000 and 5000 ft.

  • Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines, being superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines, Lake Superior, from 1866 to 1869, and afterwards, as a stockholder, acquiring a fortune, out of which he gave to Harvard, for the museum of comparative zoology and other purposes, some $500,000.

  • The Calumet and Hecla mine, in the central part of that peninsula, is probably the most profitable copper mine in the world; up to 1909 it had paid about $107,850,000 in dividends.

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