noun

• (US, historical) White beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.
• A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
• A village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
• A town in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
• An unincorporated community in Howard County and Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
• A city in Denton County, Texas, United States.
• An independent city in Virginia, United States.
• An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
• A placename:
• Ellipsis of Roanoke Colony.; a failed late 16th century English colony on what is now the coast of North Carolina.