Lexicographical Neighbors of Pingoes
Literary usage of Pingoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"... wood of the areca being at once straight, firm, and elastic, is employed for
making the pingoes (yokes for the shoulders), 1 MASSOUDI, ..."
2. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"... the stems of the leaf, for fences, for pingoes (or yokes) for carrying burdens
on the shoulders, for fishing-rods and innumerable domestic utensils; ..."
3. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"... the stems of the leaf, for fences, for pingoes (or yokes) for carrying burdens
on the shoulders, for fishing-rods and innumerable domestic utensils; ..."
4. Two Happy Years in Ceylon by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1893)
"... from its being tough and pliable, is generally used for making the pingoes or
yokes, six or eight feet in length, which are balanced on the shoulder and ..."
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