[Sca-cooks] A horse for a peppercorn-Explanation of a Food Myth

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Ironically (and sometimes sadly) you can buy a horse TODAY for a peppercorn.
Really. Of course, it's not the horse itself that will cost ya.....

--Anne-Marie, who has a "free" horse :)



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OED includes these meanings
noun

b. Stipulated as the amount required in payment of a nominal rent or a  
quit-rent. Also (occas.): a property carrying a rent of this kind.
   Still common in legal use, in the drawing up of leases.