Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of bead made of rough carnelian, generally of a cylindrical shape. Such beads, imported from Bombay, constituted an article of traffic with Africa previous to the abolition of the slave-trade.
Wiktionary
- n. A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.
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- Native name. (Wiktionary)
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