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Pipestone   Listen
noun
Pipestone  n.  A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pipestone" Quotes from Famous Books



... suppose it was because they had no railroads and so had to know geography. The Journal says that the Sioux River heads with the St. Peter's (Minnesota) River, passing the head of the Des Moines; all of which is true. And it tells of the Red Pipestone quarry, on a creek coming into the Sioux. Clark puts down all those things and does not forget the local stuff. He says the 'Countrey above the Platte has a great Similarity'—which means the Plains as they saw them. And look, in John's book—here he says 'I found a verry ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough



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