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▪ I. ped1
Also 4–6 pedde, 7 pedd. See also pad n.4
[Of unknown origin.]
A wicker pannier; a hamper with a lid.
Chiefly in use in the Eastern Counties from Northants to Essex, and in Devon and Somerset.
1390–1in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (1891) 73 Thomas Pennyng assuetus est accipere equos cum peddys, diversorum extraneorum et ducere in domum suam, unde Ballivi amittunt custumam suam; et est communis forstallator piscium. c1440Promp. Parv. 390/1 Pedde, idem quod panere. 1473Sir J. Paston in P. Lett. III. 102 Whyche I praye yow and Berney to gedre joyntly,..to trusse in a pedde, and sende them me hyddre. 1565T. Jermy Let. to W. Paston 31 Jan. (MS.), To the peadelers packe or the botom of his pedde or hamper. a1661Fuller Worthies, Dorset. i. (1662) 278 Dorsers are Peds or Panniers carried on the backs of Horses, on which Haglers use to ride and carry their Commodities. 1691Shadwell Scourers iv. i, I..flung down all the peds with pippins about the Streets. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Ped,..a large wicker basket with a lid. Two are commonly used,..one on each side of a horse, in which pork, fowls, butter, and eggs, are carried to market, and fish hawked about the country. 1881Standard 29 July 5/8 The fish..are packed in ‘peds’ or small boxes.
b. Comb., as ped-belly, ped-market.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Ped-belly,..a belly round and protuberant like a ped. 1865Way in Promp. Parv. 389 note, The market in Norwich, where wares brought in from the country are exposed for sale, being known as the ped-market. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk. s.v., There is a large ped-market at Taunton every Saturday.
▪ II. ped2
Abbreviation of pedestrian. slang. (now chiefly U.S.).
1863Tyneside Songs 87 White and Rowan, champion peds, bangs a' the lot for racin'. 1881Sportsman 31 Jan. 4/6. 1897 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 26 May 10/4 The consensus of opinion is that the Irish-Scots ped. came to the mark in the pink of condition. 1962N.Y. Times 26 Jan. 1/3 ‘Peds’ is short for pedestrians in traffic engineers' jargon. 1973D. Barnes See the Woman i. 134 A ped about three-quarters of a block away.
▪ III. ped3 Soil Science.|pɛd|
[f. Gr. πέδ-ον ground, earth.]
(See quot. 1958.)
1951Soil Survey Manual (U.S. Dept. Agric. Handbk. No. 18) 225 An individual natural soil aggregate is called a ped, in contrast to (1) a clod, caused by disturbance.., (2) a fragment caused by rupture.., or (3) a concretion caused by local concentrations of compounds that irreversibly cement the soil grains together. 1958U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1957 764/1 Ped, an individual natural soil aggregate such as a crumb, prism, or block, in contrast to a clod, which is a mass of soil brought about by digging or other disturbance. 1971R. L. Donahue et al. Soils (ed. 3) ii. 41 There are four principal types of soil structure: 1. Platy. Peds exhibit a matted, flattened, or compressed appearance... 4. Spheroidal. Peds are imperfect spheres like marbles, but are usually smaller. 1972J. G. Cruickshank Soil Geogr. iii. 79 Clayey soils also tend to develop large columnar peds which on shrinking produce non⁓capillary pores. |