calumet

plural calumets

1. A clay tobacco pipe used by Native Americans, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.

   THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

   1 more example

   When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance; those who have the calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, and now presenting themselves in front, but always with violent movements and extraordinary contortions.

   2010, William Ingraham Kip, The Early Jesuit Missions in North America, page 283

   Synonyms: peace pipe, pipe of peace

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Huerfano County, Colorado.
   2. A township in Cook County, Illinois.

      Synonyms: Calumet City

   3. The Calumet River, a system of rivers and canals between the south side of Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.
   4. A neighbourhood of East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana.
   5. A township in Lake County, Indiana.
   6. A minor city in O'Brien County, Iowa.
   7. A charter township and village therein, in Houghton County, Michigan.
   8. A minor city in Itasca County, Minnesota.
   9. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
   10. An unincorporated community in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
   11. A town in Canadian County, Oklahoma.
   12. A census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
   13. A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, adjacent to Calumet County.