1390–1 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 73 (MED) Thomas Pennyng assuetus est accipere equos cum peddys..et ducere in domum suam.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 390 (MED) Pedde, idem quod panere, supra.

1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 472 I most haue myn jnstrumentys hydder..whyche I praye yow and Berney to–gedre, joyntly..to trusse in a pedde and sende them me hyddre.

1565 T. Jermy Let. to W. Paston 31 Jan. (MS.) To the peadelers packe or the botom of his pedde or hamper.

1590 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1989) (modernized text) V. 138 I will that my 3 horses, my stock of money, with My peds, baskets and furniture for the horses.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Dorset 278 Dorsers are Peds or Panniers carried on the backs of Horses, on which Haglers use to ride and carry their Commodities.

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers iv. i. 32 I..flung down all the Peds with Pippins about the streets.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) June xv. 125 Those who..bring the Milk Home in wooden Peds, in the Shape of old-fashioned, upright Churns.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Ped, pannier; 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.

1881 Standard 29 July 5/8 The fish..are packed in ‘peds’ or small boxes.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 59 Ped, a basket or hamper with a lid.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Ped-belly,..a belly round and protuberant like a ped.

1865 A. Way in Promptorium Parvulorum 389 (note) The market in Norwich, where wares brought in from the country are exposed for sale, being known as the ped-market.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Ped-market There is a large ped-market at Taunton every Saturday.

1863 Tyneside Songs 87 White and Rowan, champion peds, bangs a' the lot for racin'.

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.

1956 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 22 Oct. 2 Runners of that era were called pedestrians, or ‘peds’.

1962 N.Y. Times 26 Jan. 1/3 ‘Peds’ is short for pedestrians in traffic engineers' jargon.

1993 Harper's Mag. Sept. 30/1 I hit some old guy crossing the street... Only ped I hit in five years.

1951 Soil Surv. Man. (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.

1971 R. 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.

1986 Forestry 59 130 Oxygen may..diffuse into the zone..along a concentration gradient found in the cross section of a ped.

1997 Ventura County (California) Star (Nexis) 23 Nov. c4 Excessive tillage..tends to break down peds and aggregates, lowering the erosion resistance of soil particles.