Obs. [f. COD sb.1 + WARE sb.]
1. Podded vegetables, pulse.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xcv. (1495), 662. Legumina: codware that seruyth to potage. Ibid. Amonge codware Lupines and beenys ben grettest.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 161. Of all the sorts of Codware, there is none so fruitful … as … the French or Kidney-bean.
2. = COD sb.1 4.
c. 1460. J. Russell, in Babees Bk., 135. Put not youre handes in youre hosen youre codware for to clawe.
