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Chick⋅a⋅saw

[chik-uh-saw]
–noun, plural -saws, (especially collectively) -saw.
1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians, formerly in northern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
2. the Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
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Chick·a·saw   (chĭk'ə-sô')   
n.   pl. Chick·a·saw or Chick·a·saws
    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now located in south-central Oklahoma. The Chickasaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

    2. A member of this people.

  1. The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.

Chick'a·saw' adj.
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