pease
Because it is a word with a single syllable, pease is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpease
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- The edible seed of some of these plants.
- A ball travelling at high velocity.
- (Indiana) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- Any of several varieties of bean.
- A peafowl
- Wampum.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
Example: "The stock market reached a peak in September 1929."
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
Example: "They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing."
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Example: "peak-brails"
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
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