Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pod or pericarp of the pea.
- noun A “double-ended” rowboat used by the lobster-fishermen of the coast of Maine.
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Examples
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Tom and Barbara in The Good Life were already prepared, with their vegetable patch and chickens and pea-pod burgundy; Richard Mabey's Food for Free and John Seymour's The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offered guidance for those who wished to follow their example.
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook Francis Wheen 2010
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This should see them knee-deep in manure, chasing goats around the vegetable patch and getting drunk on homemade pea-pod wine.
Back to The Good Life Julia Raeside 2010
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Here's an interesting story: They found Darwin's copy of the journal that Mendel's original pea-pod paper was published in.
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Then the scattering came, the seeding of the poppy, bursting of pea-pod, and for a time personality seemed but the stronger for it.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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"Yes," she answered, nodding and smiling, and pointing with a pea-pod;
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