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Rome, Treaties of(encyclopedia)
Nijmegen, Treaties of(encyclopedia)
RATIFICATION OF TREATIES(law)
International Treaties(law)
Rastatt and Baden, treaties of(encyclopedia)
prop(7)(dictionary)
prop(2)(dictionary)
prop(medicine)

Fort Stanwix, Treaties of (sh) and prop(1) (iou)


Fort Stanwix, Treaties of (sh)




(1768, 1784) Agreements by which the Iroquois Confederacy ceded land in what is now western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New York, opening vast tracts to white exploration and settlement.

In 1768 about 3,400 Iroquois gathered at Fort Stanwix (now Rome), N.Y., to sign a new treaty with the British that replaced the Proclamation of 1763. Pressure from white settlers and fur traders for additional land forced the new U.S. government to renegotiate the treaty. Weakened by the frontier campaign against them during the American Revolution, the Iroquois were persuaded to cede more land and in 1784 to sign the second treaty, also called the Treaty with the Six Nations.


prop(1) (iou)



prop noun1. LME.
[Prob. from Middle Dutch proppe vine-prop, support.]
A rigid support, as a pole, beam, etc., esp. one not an integral part of the thing supported. LME.
b. fig. A person or thing providing support, help, comfort, etc. L16.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice The boy was the..staff of my age, my very prop. P. Parish We use alcohol as a social prop.
c. Mining. A piece of timber etc. placed upright to support a roof. M18.
d. Orig. (dial.), the leg. Also (slang), the arm extended in boxing; a straight hit, a blow. Usu. in pl. L18.
e. Rugby Football. Either of two outside front-row forwards who support the hooker in a scrum. Also prop forward. M20.
A post, a cairn, esp. as a boundary-marker. Scot. LME.
A sudden stop made by a horse etc. when going at speed. Chiefly Austral. L19.
Comb.: prop forward: see sense 1e above; prop-leg Entomology = PROLEG; prop-root an adventitious root springing from the base of a plant above ground level, providing extra support; prop-word Linguistics a word of indefinite meaning, as English one, that refers to a previously mentioned noun or group of words and can take the modification of an adjective.