pea-nut (plural pea-nuts)
- Obsolete spelling of peanut.
1855, H. W. Potts, Pigs and Their Management, page 76:Tests were conducted at Arkansas, and other experiment stations, where pigs were fed on pea-nuts, and the gain per day in forty-six days averaged 0.57 lb. pork.
1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] [1]:The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left—at least none worth speaking of. George came and had a look at it—it was about the size of a pea-nut.