peppercorn

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The fruit is as big as a peppercorn, almost round, of a whitish colour, dry and tough, with a hole on the top, containing small seeds.

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  1. noun A dried berry of the pepper vine Piper nigrum.
  2. noun A small or insignificant thing.

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  • They brought derelict crash vehicles, winched them into an old barnyard Doldrum had hired for a peppercorn, and departed with 'restored' vehicles pristine as the day they'd rolled down the ramps of august car makers. —  dummy 3
  • They lease it to Peter Myer for a peppercorn rent. —  process 10
  • Behold, for an ounce of pungent peppercorn, a mere ten zirgats. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • You could make a quick pickle with garlic and parsley, white wine vinegar, peppercorn, and chile peppers perhaps ...
  • The Co-op Social Club is understood to have opened in the 1930s as an employees club, but in 1982 the Society handed it over to members for a peppercorn rent of £280. —  Evening Mail news round-up
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  1. from Middle English *peppercorn, from Anglo-Saxon piporcorn, pipercorn (= Dutch peperkorrel = Middle Low German peperkorn = Middle High German phefferkorn, German pfefferkorn = Icelandic piparkorn = Swedish pepparkorn = Danish peberkorn), from pipor, pepper, + corn, corn; see pepper and corn.
 

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/ˈpɛpərkɔrn/
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