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† peaw dialectal var. of po, peacock. Obs.
1719Strachey in Phil. Trans. XXX. 970 Next under the three Coal Veins is the Peaw Vein, so denominated because the Coal is figured with Eyes resembling a Peacock's Tayl,..which Bird in this Country [Somerset] Dialect is called a Peaw. [Cf. peacock-coal, s.v. peacock n. 6 b.] |