Definitions
Small dried berry used as pepper spice.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English peper corn, peper-corn, pepercorn, from Old English piporcorn (“peppercorn”), corresponding to pepper + corn. Compare Dutch peperkorrel (“peppercorn”), German Pfefferkorn (“peppercorn”), Danish peberkorn (“peppercorn”), Swedish pepparkorn (“peppercorn”), Icelandic piparkorn (“peppercorn”).
Used in a sentence
“peppercorn rent”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Grinding spice bit”10 letters
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