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Peag

Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also peage, peak, peeke.] [Prob. of North American Indian origin, by shortening of wampumpeag.
--RHUD.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. See also wampum.

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peag

n. wampum.

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peag

n. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency [syn: wampum, wampumpeag]

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Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit.