Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The globose berry of the potato, Solanum tuberosum. See
potato , 2.
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Examples
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Another one told him that perhaps he'd better keep a little shady; that are chap that had got the mittin was praowlin 'abaout with a pistil, -- one o' them Darringers abaout as long as your thumb, an '' ll fire a bullet as big as a potato-ball, -- a fellah carries one in his breeches-pocket, an 'shoots y' right threugh his own pahnts, withaout ever takin 'on it aout of his pocket.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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These characteristics, some or all, imbibed by the minute potato from the ingredients of the soil, at its first growth from the seed of the potato-ball, adhere with great tenacity to it through all its generations.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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