Definitions For Pingo

Etymology 1

From {{der, en, kl, pingu}} or {{der, en, iu, pingu, , hummock, small hill}}.

Noun

PINGO (plural es or s) (geomorphology) A conical mound of earth with an ice#noun, ice core #noun, core caused by permafrost uplift#noun, uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. from 1920s

Synonyms

hydrolaccolith

Translations

Armenian: հիդրոլակոլիթ Chinese: 小丘 Czech: pingo Estonian: külmakühm Finnish: pingo German: Pingo Hindi: पिंगो Hungarian: pingó Kazakh: гидролакколиттер Korean: 핑고 Lithuanian: pingas, bulgunjachas, hidrolakolitas Russian: бугры пучения Ukrainian: гідролаколі́ти Yakut: булгунньах

See also

palsa

Etymology 2

, india, using a carrying pole to water fenugreek sprouts. A similar device is known in sri lanka as a pingo (etymology 2, sense 1).]] Apparently from {{der, en, si}} (?),{{cite-book, entry=PINGO, editor={{w, Edward Balfour}}, title=Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, edition=2nd, location=Madras, publisher=Printed at the Scottish, and Lawrence Presses, year=1873, volume=IV, page=580, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BoNRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA580, column=1, oclc=80069237, passage=PINGO, {{small, Singh[alese]}}, {{...}} an elastic stick loaded at both ends, poised on the shoulder, used in Ceylon for carrying burthens.}} but the word has not yet been identified.

Noun

PINGO (plural es or s) (Sri Lanka, dated) A flexible pole#noun, pole support#verb, supported on one shoulder#noun, shoulder, with a load#noun, load suspended from each end; a carrying pole or carrying yoke#noun, yoke. (Sri Lanka, dated) A measure#noun, measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carry, carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pound#noun, pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation).

Synonyms

flexible pole carrying pole, milkmaid's yoke, shoulder pole weight picul

Translations

flexible pole with a load suspended from each end, carrying pole

Anagrams

oping