pea-codn.
/ˈpiːkɒd/, U.S. /ˈpiˌkɑd/, Scottish English /ˈpikɔd/ Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
The pod or shell of a pea; = peascod n. peacod tree n. a laburnum (cf. peasecod tree n. at peascod n. Compounds 2).
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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
1721 Caledonian Mercury 14 Dec. in Sc. National Dict. at Pea The Wood of Baladgarno in the Paroch of Inchsture in the Carse of Gowry..consisting of Elms, Oakes, Firs, Gienns, and Peacod Tree.
1778 H. Brooke Contending Brothers ii. ii, in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 122 A mere niggardly good for nothing, with a heart as squeez'd and narrow as a young peacod.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. v. 81 They are as like thine own, as one green pea-cod is to another.
1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (rev. ed.) xviii. 175 He got himsel gaithered oot amon the peycods an cabbitch, he was genna be at me.
1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3167/1 The pea-cod..or peasecod, consists of a sheath or pericarp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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