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pepperidge|ˈpɛpərɪdʒ|
Also -age; see also pipperidge.
1. A variant of pipperidge, local English name of the Barberry.
1823in Moor Suffolk Words. a1900in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Hertford, Suffolk.
2. U.S. The Black Gum, Sour Gum, or Tupelo, a North American tree of the genus Nyssa, having very tough wood. esp. Nyssa sylvatica (cf. nyssa). Also attrib.
1689Huntington (N.Y.) Town Rec. (1888) II. 56 A piperage tree marked faceing eastward and southward. 1743J. Hempstead Diary 22 Feb. (1901) 406 Wee Sawed of a pr Peperage wheels for my Stone Cart. [1810F. A. Michaux Hist. Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 30 Peperidge fréquemment uisitée par les Hollandois du New Jersey.] 1821J. F. Cooper Spy I. ix. 133 A lieutenant of cavalry..whose captain is as tough as a peperage log. 1826F. Cooper Mohicans (1829) I. vi. 77 A trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperage. 1864Webster, Pepperidge. 1866Treas. Bot. 798 N[yssa] villosa, the Sour Gum, Black Gum, Pepperridge, or Tupelo tree, common from New England to the Carolinas. 1876Field & Forest I. 66 This parasitic shrub [sc. American mistletoe] has been found growing on several Pepperidge or Sour-gum trees. 1900J. de F. Shelton Salt-Box House ix. 67 A certain tract of land,..beginning at the highway near my present house..to a pepperidge tree. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 257/2 The pepperidge, black gum, or tupelo (N. sylvatica) of eastern North America ranges from Maine to Michigan, Florida and Texas. Up to 100 feet in height, it forms a flat-topped columnar or pyramidal head of usually somewhat pendulous branches and has blunt, obovate or elliptic, lustrous leaves that turn brilliant cellar and two pepperettes. 1977Times 26 July 9/2 (Advt.), This pug-dog pepperette..London, 1881..realised {pstlg}105. |