pea-nut

See also: peanut and pea nut

English

Noun

pea-nut (plural pea-nuts)

1. Obsolete spelling of peanut.
   • 1855, H. W. Potts, Pigs and Their Management, page 76:

     Tests were conducted at Arkansas, and other experiment stations, where pigs were fed on pea-nuts, and the gain per day in forty-six days averaged 0.57 lb. pork.

   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] ‎^[1]:

     The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left—at least none worth speaking of. George came and had a look at it—it was about the size of a pea-nut.

Anagrams

• ante up, ante-up, untape