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peag
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peag has 1 sense
- peag(n = noun.artifact) wampum, wampumpeag - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency; Array is a kind of beads, string of beads
CIDE DICTIONARY
peag, n. [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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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