Term Gallery logo

Meanings of Pelew in English

A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.

        Usage of Pelew in English
        1
        With both Chaplin and Denison she would now converse freely in the Pelew Island dialect.
        The Ebbing Of The Tide / South Sea Stories - 1896
        2
        Papua or New Guinea is my portion, and it happens to lie near the Pelew Isles.
        The World of Waters, Or, A Peaceful Progress O'er the Unpathed S...
        3
        We left here the young Englishman, George Marsh, of whom I have before spoken, who was wrecked upon the Pelew Islands.
        Two Years Before the Mast
        4
        She was a native of one of the Pelew Islands, a tall, slenderly-built girl, with pale, olive skin and big, soft eyes.
        By Reef and Palm
        5
        In 1696 two canoes, with 29 Pelew Islanders, drifted to the coast of Sámar Island, and landed at the Town of Guivan.
        The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
        6
        'Let us finish these Pelew men, ere mischief come of it,' said Riedermann, the captain.
        By Reef and Palm
        Frequent collocations
        Pelew through the time