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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEQUOTS

Pe "quots, n. pl. ; sing. Pequot (. (Ethnol.)

Defn: A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

New American Oxford Dictionary

Pequot

Pe quot |ˈpēˌkwät ˈpikwɑt | ▶noun ( pl. same or Pequots ) 1 a member of an American Indian people of southern New England. 2 the Algonquian language of this people, closely related to Mohegan. ▶adjective of or relating to this people or their language. ORIGIN from Narragansett pequttóog, perhaps ‘people of the shoals. ’

Oxford Dictionary

Pequot

Pequot |ˈpiːkwɒt | ▶noun ( pl. same or Pequots ) 1 a member of an American Indian people of southern New England. 2 [ mass noun ] the extinct Algonquian language of the Pequot. ▶adjective relating to the Pequot or their language. ORIGIN from Narragansett paquatanog ‘destroyers ’.