hog pea

Noun

hog-pea (plural hog-peas)

1. An heirloom field pea or a native vining legume, grey-brown in color.
   • After many Years Experience, we Hertfordshire Farmers have found none to answer our Intereſt ſo well as the Horn-grey Hog-pea;, the Maple, the Blue, and the White. It is theſe four Sorts that we chiefly fow in our incloſed Fields, in Refuſal of all others1744, Ellis, William, chapter VII, in The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming / by William Ellis v.2, page 62

   Synonyms:

   black badger, carlin pea, grey peas, maple pea