The Pepper Quern

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• Quern

  ·noun A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; — used before the inv...

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• quern

  a handmill to grind malt. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Pepper

  ·vi To fire numerous shots (at). II. Pepper ·vt To sprinkle or season with pepper. III. Pepper ·no...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• pepper, native

  i.q. Climbing Pepper (see above), Piper Novae-Hollandiae, Miq. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native P...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Bell pepper

  ·- A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. ...

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• Bird pepper

  ·- A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the mos...

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• Pepper box

  ·add. ·noun A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College,...

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• Pepper dulse

  ·- A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency. ...

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• Water pepper

  ·- <<Waterwort>>. II. Water pepper ·- <<Smartweed>>. ...

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• climbing-pepper

  n. See pepper. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native pepper

  n. See pepper. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pepper, climbing

  n. Pipernovae-hollandiae, Miq., N.O. Piperaceae. Calledalso Native Pepper, and Native Pepper-vine. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pepper-tree

  n. The name is given to twotrees, neither of which are the true pepper of commerce( Piper). They a...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• galley-pepper

  The soot or ashes which accidentally drop into victuals in cooking. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pepper-dulse

  ♦ Halymenia edulis; a pungent sea-weed, which, as well as H. palmata, common dulse, is eaten in Scot...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• tom pepper

  A term for a liar; he having, according to nautic tradition, been kicked out of the nether regions f...

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• (St.) Mary le Quern

  Bequest to the church of St. Mary le Quern, 28 Ed. III. (Ct. H.W. I. 685). Would seem to be an erro...

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• vine, native pepper

  See Climbing Pepper,under pepper. ...

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