Aquidneck
Proper noun
Meaning
Aquidneck
Ellipsis of Aquidneck Island..
Examples
One of them named John Clarke learned from Williams that Aquidneck Island might be purchased from the Narragansetts.
Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept this law, making it a dead letter.
The earliest documented use of the name "Rhode Island" for Aquidneck was in 1637 by Roger Williams.