pea-nuts

The was the only thing the was good on that other farmers getting raises on pea-nuts.

Scenes from the trail: Obama's 'caminata' 2008

Indian corn, holcus sorghum, maweri, or panicum, or bajri, as called by the Arabs; gardens of sweet potatoes, large tracts of cucumbers, water-melons, mush-melons, and pea-nuts which grew in the deep furrows between the ridges of the holcus.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

I took a little room, paying for it day by day, and in the meantime I fed on those loathsome pea-nuts, buying a handful in the street now and then.

New Grub Street 2003

They make straw hats there principally, and they sell pea-nuts.

New Grub Street 2003

Wilmington (North Carolina), comes nearly the entire quantity of earth nuts (known as pea-nuts) grown in the United States for market.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

A large bag of pea-nuts, with many other things, was displayed outside under the window, and the old man's attention had been attracted by seeing the elder of the boys carelessly pick up a nut as he chatted with his companion, who soon followed his example.

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

In a small fenced paddock at the end of the garden, were sweet potatoes, pea-nuts, cotton, tobacco, and some magnificent maize.

Argentina from a British Point of View Various

They have planted and are cultivating sixty-three acres of cotton, fifty of corn, six of potatoes, with as many more to be planted, four and a half of cow-peas, three of pea-nuts, and one and a half of rice.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Whether his father was a count in Italy or a seller of pea-nuts in

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

There was freedom -- to blow horns, freedom to fire crackers, freedom to "holler," freedom to crack torpedoes, freedom to buy pea-nuts, buns, ancient figs and dates and abominable cheap candy, freedom to make one's self as dirty, tired -- and cross the next day -- as possible!

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand