pumpions

Cut them into pieces, and pare and cleanse them; then have a boiling pan of water, and when it boils put in the pumpions, _&c. _ with some salt, being boil'd, drain them well from the water, butter them, and serve them on sippets with pepper.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Of vegetables we found an abundance, particularly of pumpions and cabbages, in the market; but, as it was not the season for fruit, we only procured some shaddocks, a few bad oranges, and some indifferent limes.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

Virginia pease, pumpions, and putchamins, fish, fowls, and diverse sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eate them: so that none of our Tuftaffaty humorists desired to goe for England.

Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885

You sent no pumpions seeds, nor watermillions. wait winthrop to fitz-john wintjirop.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

I learnt from my _Sarcar_, that similar complaints had been made to him before, and that the rascal of a _Mahout_ made it a practice to ride the elephant into the midst of a herd of goats, and had taught him to pick up any of the young ones he directed; he had also accustomed him to steal their pumpions and other vegetables, that grew against the inside of their fences like French beans, which could only be reached by an elephant.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

o trewe and pumpions togeather seriant what say you to the mercy of the king do you refuse yt

Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590