Peag : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Peag	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Peag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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 Synonym(s): wampum, peag, wampumpeag
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads.