Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of juggler or sleight-of-hand performer.
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Examples
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She gave her ornaments of shells, and pointed out to her a wabeno-tree, in whose tops spirits were supposed to whisper, and around which Indian visitors sometimes danced in the summer evenings.
The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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The interpreter introduced him by the name of Little Pine, or Shingwalkonee, and as a person of some consequence among the Indians, being a meta, a wabeno, a counselor, a war chief, and an orator or speaker.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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We could plainly hear the deep murmur of the falls, after we lay down to rest, and also the monotonous thump of the distant Indian wabeno drum.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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The interpreter introduced him by the name of Little Pine, or Shingwalkonee, and as a person of some consequence among the Indians, being a meta, a wabeno, a counselor, a war chief, and an orator or speaker.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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We could plainly hear the deep murmur of the falls, after we lay down to rest, and also the monotonous thump of the distant Indian _wabeno_ drum.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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