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pedware
† ˈpedware Obs. [Origin obscure. Perh. from ped, basket, though this hardly accounts for the sense, or perh. an error in Googe for podware, copied by Worlidge and Phillips; but podware is itself of doubtful history, since pod = cod has not been found till about a century later than podware and pedwa... Oxford English Dictionary
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podware
ˈpodware Obs. exc. dial. Also 7–9 podder. [Of uncertain origin: cf. codware, 1398–1699, and pedware, 1577–1706. The first element suggests pod of pease, beans, etc.; but this is not known till nearly a century later than podware, which moreover in quot. 1584 is not applied to pulse or podded plants,... Oxford English Dictionary
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