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