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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  peag 
  n  :  small  beads  made  from  polished  shells  and  formerly  used  as 
  money  by  native  Americans  [syn:  {wampum}] 




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