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Oneida [əʊˈnaɪdə] n pl -das, -da
1. (Placename) Lake. a lake in central New York State: part of the New York State Barge Canal system. Length: about 35 km (22 miles). Greatest width: 9 km (6 miles) 2. (Social Science / Peoples) (preceded by the; functioning as plural) a North American Indian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples 3. (Social Science / Peoples) a member of this people 4. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family [from Iroquois onēyóte', literally: standing stone] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| If Webb wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring out the tribes of the Delawares, and send these greedy and lying Mohawks and Oneidas, with their six nations of varlets, where in nature they belong, among the French “I had lost my bullet-mould in crossing the Oneida outlet, and had to make shift with the buckshot; but the rifle was true, and didn’t scatter like your two-legged thing there, Judge, which don’t do, I find, to hunt in company with. |
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