palm-kernel

plural palm-kernels

1. alternativeAlternative form of palm kernel.

   The country produces in abundance palm oil, palm-kernels, and ground-nut, perhaps the greatest staples of West African commerce, and abounds with sugarcane, pepper, coffee, ginger, gum, and ivory.

   1873 September 30, Times correspondent, “The Ashantee Expedition”, in The Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, volume CVI, Dublin, published 25 October 1873, →OCLC, page 7, column 5

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   I never saw more than four men at work amongst the gins, and then half a dozen squatters were chatting with and staring at them, whilst a woman or two sat by with baskets of popped maize and boiled palm-kernels to recruit exhausted nature.

   1863, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “Entrée into Abeokuta”, in Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. An Exploration. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 76

   They are papers concerning the brig’s cargo, crew, and the like. I find she’s a trifle bigger than I thought her—three tons under two hundred. She’s chokeful of palm-kernels, and I should say her carge^([sic]) alone is not worth less than £4,000.

   1883 June 16, W[illiam] Clark Russell, “A Sea Queen”, in The Daily Inter Ocean, volume XII, number 80 (4,205 overall), Chicago, Ill., →OCLC, chapter XXXV, page 11, column 4