The tupelo: a tree of the genus Nyssa.
1826. While he tendered to Alice the calabash of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher neatly carved from the knot of the pepperage.—J. F. Cooper, ‘The Last of the Mohicans,’ i. 76. (N.E.D.)
1862. Nobody would be sech a consarned fool as to try an split a peperage log.—Seba Smith, ‘Letters of Major Jack Downing,’ Sept. 13.
