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1600 H. May in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 571 A pangaia..is a vessell like a barge, with one matsaile of Coco nut leaues.

1664 Escaliot Let. 26 Jan. in Sir T. Browne Wks. (1852) III. 519 Cords made of coconutt rinde.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. xviii. 217 They make occasional baskets and panniers of the cocoa-nut leaf in a few minutes.

1791 European Mag. Sept. 181/1 Their hogs are remarkably fat, being fed upon the cocoa-nut kernel and sea-water.

1815 Port Folio Mar. 284 They..placed the god, with the cocoa-nut branch under him, on the ground.

1856 Liverpool Mercury 3 May 8/8 The import duty..upon cocoa-nut cordage and fibre.

1894 M. North Recoll. Happy Life I. ix. 335 We went on in another canoe.., stopping to breakfast at a cocoa-nut farm.

1908 Trop. & Sub Trop. Amer. May 149/2 When fermented and distilled the coconut-sap furnishes the fiery drink known in the East as ‘arrack’.

1968 M. Moerman Agric. Change & Peasant Choice in Thai Village iii. 37 When there is no woody undergrowth, coconut fronds or thatch are used as fuel.

2009 Times (Nexis) 21 Aug. 4 How to gather the harvest without risking life and limb is a puzzle that has exercised the finest minds in the coconut industry for centuries.