▪ I. ‖ pegall
(pɛˈgɔːl)
Also peggall, packall.
[a. Du. pagaal, ad. Carib pagāla.]
A basket of native make used by the Indians of Guyana.
| [1796 Stedman Surinam (1806) I. xv. 404 A few baskets called pagala.] 1825 Waterton Wand. S. Amer. iii. 193 Hither the Indians come with monkies, parrots, bows and arrows, and pegalls. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Packall, Pagala, a kind of basket made of the outer rind of the Ita palm (Mauritia flexuosa). 1899 Rodway Guiana Wilds 107 They..placed these articles carefully away in their pegalls, or wicker trunks. |
▪ II. pegall
variant of peggle.