Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See wampum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Among the North American Indians, in colonial days, a sort of money consisting of beads made from the ends of shells, rubbed down and polished and strung into belts or necklaces, which were valued according to their length and the perfection of their workmanship. Black or purple peag was worth twice as much as white, length for length.
Wiktionary
- n. Wampum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
Etymologies
- From the latter part of the Narragansett word wampumpeag. (Wiktionary)
- Short for wampumpeag. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“It should be said, in justice to the New Haven colonists, though they were the most opulent of the New England planters, save the wealthy settlers of Narragansett, that money of all kinds was scarce, and that the Indian money, wampum-peag, being made of a comparatively frail sea-shell, was more easily disfigured and broken than was metal coin; and that there was little transferable wealth in the community anyway, even in "Country Pay.”
“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.”
“I had promised to write for them, but the peag being bi-ought me, & so litle, & they quarrelling among them - sclues, & foolishly charging inferior Sacbims of nonpay - ment, I was not free.”
Internet Archive: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
“Our neighbours messengers are gone to (not rctiu'ned from) Massachusetts, with about 20H or upwards of peag.”
Internet Archive: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peag’.
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Payments
Trades & payments for goods and serices. NO HUMAN USE accepted. May be historical or modern.
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Words 1-3-11
peag, ameliorate, vex, tawdry, sumptuary, padrao, referendum, gulpin, corbana, actuated, landern, grotesquerie and 17 more...
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Beads & Baubles
peag, decalcomania, diptych, triptych, alto relievo, alto rilievo, aquatint, anaglyph, basso relievo, basso rilievo, diaglyph, gravure and 1 more...
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beads and trinkets
wampum, sewan, spangly, fusarole, passementerie, knurl, astragal, jequirity, wampumpeag, seawant, rigoll, purfle and 17 more...
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measured words
inchworm, football, yardstick, quarter, octave, week, fortnight, sofer, pentecost, whitsunday, izzard, heshvan and 43 more...
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