pea podn.
/ˈpiː pɒd/, U.S. /ˈpi ˌpɑd/ 1. The pod or legume of the pea plant, which contains the peas.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > pea-pod, pea-shell, or pea seed
peascodc1390
pease-hulla1425
pippina1450
squash1600
pea-hull1717
pea-cod1721
pea shell1744
pea pod1772
shaup1822
1772 S. Neville Diary 16 June (1950) viii. 167 Little Polly being at Mrs Liffen's, I saw her pull some pea-pods in my garden.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 384 A bean podd, that holds five beans, and a pea podd, which contains nine peas, are considered to be sonsy.
1884 R. Browning Two Camels in Ferishtah's Fancies 7 Horse, ass, and mule consume their provender Nor leave a pea-pod.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 98/4 A few handfuls of lime or ashes, and vegetable garbage such as pea pods, corn husks, cabbage leaves, and other tender greens, etc.
2004 Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Jan. Cover and steam until the shrimp are pink and firm and the pea pods are crisp yet tender.
2. North American. A kind of small, open, double-ended rowing boat, of a type used esp. in lobster fishing.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > other types of rowing boat
coblec950
row barge1466
bark1477
rowing barge1548
galley1570
caïque1625
catur1653
dory1726
skiff1793
dinghy1810
panga1811
dinghy1818
randan1838
dragon boat1846
guinea-boat1867
drive boat1879
pea pod1884
in-rigger1893
pointer1901
sandolo1928
1884 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 27. 696 Double-ender or pea-pod,..open; lapstreak; sharp forward and aft; rounding stem and stern-post; both ends alike; [etc.].
1895 Searcher No. 1. 79 A pea-pod is a small open rowboat, much in demand among the Maine lobster fishermen.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 July 24/1 Peapods, skiffs and dories dotted the waters.
2003 New Yorker 20 Jan. 40 (advt.) A vintage craft, a double-ended pea pod described in the vernacular of the day as a ‘pulling boat’, rather than a rowboat.
Compounds
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pea-pod tint n.
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1900 Daily News 6 Mar. 8/7 Monotonous shades of an unpleasant pea-pod tint.
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pea-pod argus n. now historical and rare the long-tailed blue, Lampides boeticus (family Lycaenidae), a pinkish-blue European butterfly, having at the rear end of each hind wing a pair of black spots and a tail which is a continuation of a vein of the wing.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Lycaenidae > genus Lampides > lampides baetica (pea-pod argus)
pea-pod argus1870
1870 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Butterflies (1871) viii. 117/1 Pea-pod Argus.
1898 Daily News 22 Aug. 6/3 The pea-pod argus..is so very scarce in this country that its title to rank as a British butterfly at all is doubtful.
1973 T. G. Howarth South's Brit. Butterflies 75 Newman called it the ‘Brighton Argus’ or ‘Pea-pod Argus’ and noted that in that particular year [sc. 1859] the butterfly was very abundant in the Channel Islands and on the coast of France.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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