Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chief; a person of wealth or distinction.
- noun Same as
quinnat .
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Examples
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However, they vowed to take several "tyee" heads with them.
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If you do a search over at tyee.ca you can read a series of exceprts.
I need a new word. LuLu 2008
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Posted in Bill Tieleman, The tyee, gordon campbell.
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Posted in Bill Tieleman, The tyee, gordon campbell.
Gold Medals And Poor Children « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Should vee go to da tyee buutikk for drinksies an dansies?
only teh yung n foolish - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Show the white _tyee_ who lives in the magic treasure-house that you can play your games fairly.
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The vault itself, with its store of gold and currency, and its cabinet of mysterious treaties, which the _tyee_ made with the busy white men, filled him with awe.
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But the great white _tyee_ said: 'Behold, the Great
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I come here by the orders of the _tyee_ -- the president.
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Lamson angry and caused him to lose this money to Kitsap, who serves the great white _tyee_.
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"Ty ee adj Nootka Taiyi Tyke Jewitt A chief Any thing of superior order Saghalie tyee the Deity tyee salmon the spring salmon Toyon is given by some of the northwestern voyagers as the Eskimo appellation for chief "
February 4, 2013