'Peag' definitions:
Definition of 'peag'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, peag, wampumpeag]
Definition of 'Peag'
From: GCIDE
- Peag \Peag\ (p[=e]g), 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]