pipestone

[pahyp-stohn]

noun

a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.

Origin of pipestone

First recorded in 1755–65; pipe¹ + stone

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Historical Examples of pipestone

A stone from Ohio, for pipestone from Dakota, or for a stone from any other State.
Harper's Young People, June 21, 1881
Various
These streams have the same right of asylum, though in a less degree than Pipestone creek already mentioned.
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
A few days later two solitary teepees stood on the shore of the pond, under the red cliffs of the Pipestone Quarry.
Red Hunters And the Animal People
Charles A. Eastman
We had no peace until we came within sight of the Pipestone Quarry.
Red Hunters And the Animal People
Charles A. Eastman
Others of the enemy might come after pipestone, and there was our trail running straight to the place.
With the Indians in the Rockies
James Willard Schultz

British Dictionary definitions for pipestone

pipestone

noun

a variety of consolidated red clay used by Native Americans to make tobacco pipes

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