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1684 Minute Meeting Oxf. Philos. Soc. 5 Aug. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1925) iv. 83 Dr. Plot presented..some of ye Pindes, from ye Coast of Guinea; of which Substance the Inhabitants make their bread, and severall meats; it seems to be a round seed.

1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 77 These Pindars are sown under ground, and grow there without sprouting above the surface.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. lxxiii I was assured that the Negroes feed on Pindals or Indian Earth-nuts, a sort of pea or bean producing its pods under ground.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xx. 115 The pistachio or pinda nuts they also convert into butter.

1814 tr. L. B. Proyart Hist. Loango in J. Pinkerton Coll. Voy. & Trav. XVI. 551 There is nothing which the Negroes cultivate with more care than the Pinda.

1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 190 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI The ground pea of the south, or..the gouber or pindar pea, is highly recommended in the Tallahassee Floridian.

1879 Louisville (Kentucky) Home & Farm 15 Apr. My hogs..had..the run of potato, pinder and pea fields.

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xviii. 214 The field of pindars was not doing so well.

1948 M. M. Mathews Some Sources of Southernisms 111 In colloquial speech we call peanuts pinders, goobers, and ground peas.

2000 Gleaner (Jamaica) 8 Mar. Downstairs was a tiny shop, where we sold a little paradise plum, mint balls, pinda cake, a half-pint of kerosene oil, two pence of codfish and a half a pound of flower [sic].