Any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves.
1 One-fourth head cabbage , three large onions, one turnip, three large potatoes, two tablespoons cooked beans; boil all together till tender.
2 Heading cabbages often contain more sugar, and store well for months after harvest.
3 On the floor, in heaps, were some hard- headed cabbages , only one or two spoiled.
4 Chow-Chow.-Twoquarts tomatoes, half dozen green peppers, one dozen cucumbers, two white onions, two heads cabbage .
5 In it were quantities of 'very fine well- headed cabbages and of all other sorts of pot herbs and vegetables.'
6 One-half peck green tomatoes; one dozen peppers; two heads cabbage (medium size); one-half peck onions; one-fourth peck cucumbers.
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