costards

Thus, in the baskets, and quivering in the hopper of the mill, she saw specimens of mixed dates, including the mellow countenances of streaked-jacks, codlins, costards, stubbards, ratheripes, and other well-known friends of her ravenous youth.

The Woodlanders 2006

Nor is the name Coster to be referred to costermonger, originally a dealer in costards, i.e. apples.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

` ` Leave him still, ye fools, '' whispered Long Allen to his mates; ` ` by Saint Christopher, you will make our Dickon go beside himself, and we shall have his dagger presently fly at our costards.

The Talisman 1894

Thus, in the baskets, and quivering in the hopper of the mill, she saw specimens of mixed dates, including the mellow countenances of streaked-jacks, codlins, costards, stubbards, ratheripes, and other well-known friends of her ravenous youth.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Odds costards; it's not so easily done by a plain man not bred in the North.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Odds costards; it's not so easily done by a plain man not bred in the North.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

“Leave him still, ye fools,” whispered Long Allen to his mates; “by Saint Christopher, you will make our Dickon go beside himself, and we shall have his dagger presently fly at our costards.

The Talisman 2008

(A.D. 1526.) _Forme of Cury_, p.  174.] [Footnote 13: Wardens are baking pears; costards, apples.] [Footnote 14: I do not suppose that each guest retired to his own bed-room, but to the general withdrawing-room, -- possibly used as a general bed-room also, when the Hall had ceased to be it.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867