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sag|a|more
sag|a|more «SAG uh mr, -mohr», noun.
(among the Algonkian Indian tribes of New England) a chief or great man, sometimes below a sachem.
[American English, earlier sagamo < Algonkian (Abnaki) sangman chief, ruler. See related etym. at sachem. (Cf.sachem)]

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