calumet

Meanings

1. A clay tobacco pipe used by Native Americans, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.

1. A number of places in the United States:
2. A ghost town in Huerfano County, Colorado.
3. A township in Cook County, Illinois.
4. The Calumet River, a system of rivers and canals between the south side of Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.
5. A neighbourhood of East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana.
6. A township in Lake County, Indiana.
7. A minor city in O'Brien County, Iowa.
8. A charter township and village therein, in Houghton County, Michigan.
9. A minor city in Itasca County, Minnesota.
10. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
11. An unincorporated community in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
12. A town in Canadian County, Oklahoma.

Etymology

From a Norman variant of Old French chalumeau (imported to Canada with Norman colonists), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos).