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  1. (American Indian `shell money'). industrial
  2. city (railway repairs, chemicals, steel
  3. goods, furniture, textiles) in Virginia, USA,
  4. on the Roanoke River; population (1980)
  5. 100,500. Founded in 1834 as Big Lick, it was
  6. a small village until 1881 when the repair
  7. shops of the Virginia Railway were set up
  8. here, after which it developed rapidly.
  9.