Definitions For Pingo

Etymology 1

From or .

Noun

PINGO (plural es, 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 (?),, 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, , 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, 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