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Beads vs Roanoke - What's the difference?

beads | roanoke |

As nouns the difference between beads and roanoke

is that beads is while roanoke is (us|historical) white beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by native americans of colonial virginia.

As a verb beads

is (bead).

beads

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • A beaded necklaces.

    • Derived terms

    * anal beads

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bead)

    • Anagrams

    *

    roanoke

    English

    Alternative forms

    *rawranoke

    Noun

    (-)
  • (US, historical) White beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 94:
    • Cuscarawaoke, where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the savages, as gold and silver amongst Christians
  • * 1656 , John Tradescant, Musaeum Tradescantianum , pages 47 and 51, different spelling as printed:
    • Pohatan, King of Virgiania's habit all embroidered with shells, or Roanoke' (p. 47); Virginian purses imbroidered with ' Roanoake (p. 51)
  • * 1993 , Joseph Douglas Deal, Race and class in colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the seventeenth century , page 23:
    • The king of Machepungo was ordered to deliver over twice as much roanoke in graduated payments over the course of eight months.