palm-kernel

See also: palm kernel and palmkernel

English

Noun

palm-kernel (plural palm-kernels)

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