| 单词 | black peag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack peag = wampum n. 1a. Also with distinguishing word, esp. black peag, white peag. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > beads roanoke1615 wampumpeag1627 Indian money1634 wampum1636 peag1638 seawant1701 hiaqua1824 shell-money1851 1638 Proc. Council Maryland in Arch. Maryland (1885) III. 73 Entred by Capt. Henry ffleete..7 fathome of peake. 1648 in C. W. Manwaring Digest Early Connecticut Probate Rec. (1904) I. 179 No peage, white or black, [shall] bee paid or receiued, but what is strung..sutably, and not small and great vncomely and disorderly mixt. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. 108 Having fetched out of a Swamp hard by,..a large Belt of Peag. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. xii. 58 Peak is of two sorts, or rather of two colours, for both are made of one Shell, though of different parts;..the Wampom Peak, at eighteenpence per Yard, and the white Peak at nine pence. 1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N. Carolina (1743) 286 She likewise had a large Belt about her full of their Peack, or wampum, which is their Money. 1820 J. W. Eastburn & R. C. Sands Yamoyden i. xiv. 24 Collar beneath and gorget shone, The peäg armlets and the zone. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money iv. 27 A foot of black peag being worth two feet of white peag. 1944 H. Footner Rivers of E. Shore 137 For currency, the Nanticokes used ‘roanoke’ and ‘peake’, sometimes called ‘wampum-peake’, two kinds of shell... Peake, white in color, was made of cockleshell. 1986 H. Kraft Lenape vii. 202 Wampum beads (sewant, sewan, or zeawant in Dutch) and wampum (peak or peage in English) apparently were made first by the Narranganset and other coastal Indians of New England and Long Island. < as lemmas |
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