PEPPERPOT

DEFINITIONS 
1. a small box with a perforated lid used for sprinkling
powdered pepper ...1679
2. a West Indian dish of meat (or fish, game, etc.) and vegetables
stewed down with cassareep (the juice of bitter cassava root,
boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring for food)
and red pepper, or other hot spices ...a1704
3. a quick-tempered or hot-tempered person ...1894
4. in Pennsylvania, a stew of tripe and doughballs seasoned
with pepper ...B1900
5. (usaually as 'pepper pot') a revolver ...Bk1942 Amer. sl. 

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EXAMPLE
From: Transatlantic Sketches
Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, 
and the West Indies
By. Capt. J.E Alexander, Vol. I, 1833
Chapter III, Residences of the Woodcutters