Peach

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To accuse of crime; to inform against.

II. Peach ·vi To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

III. Peach ·noun A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

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