Ribstonn.
/ˈrɪbst(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈrɪbstən/ More fully †Ribston Park pippin, Ribston pippin. A variety of dessert apple prized for its rich flavour, supposed to have originated from a pip brought from France around 1700; (also) the tree producing this apple.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1782 E. Hargrove Hist. Knaresbrough (ed. 3) 61 This place is remarkable for the produce of a delicious apple, called the Ribstone Park Pippin.
1794 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent 62 The favourite sorts of apples..for domestic uses, the lemon pippen, or quince apple, farley pippen, royal russet, ribstone pippen [etc.].
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) 280 Ribstone pippin.
1836 N. Paterson Manse Garden i. 92 The Ribston as a tree thrives better in the orchard.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vi. 51 A little hard-headed, Ripstone pippin-faced man.
1878 T. Hardy in Belgravia Apr. 234 Now a few russets... He used to like them almost as well as ribstones.
1895 Garden 27 Apr. 285/1 About six years ago I found canker setting in somewhat severely on about 200 trees, and I was afraid our Ribstons were doomed.
1910 H. Belloc Verses 81 I said to Heart, ‘How goes it?’ Heart replied: ‘Right as a Ribstone Pippin!’
1932 Discovery July 220/1 At first the English varieties (Ribston, Blenheim, Pearmain and Russet, etc.) were grown.
1981 Times 14 Aug. 8/8 Some of the old English varieties are becoming hard to find. Where are Beauty of Bath and Mr. Gladstone, Blenheim Orange and Ribston Pippin?
2006 Ecologist Feb. 90/3 So we're growing 24 varieties of apple, all of them rare and unusual, their very names a poetry of place: Kingston Black, Miller's Seedling, Irish Peach, Rev W. Wilkes, Ribston Pippin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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