Sagamore

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A juice used in medicine.

II. Sagamore ·noun The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief;

— generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

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sagamore
The title of a chief or ruler among some of the American tribes of Indians; a sachem.--Worcester. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.