Costard.
A large apple, and, metaphorically, a man’s head. (See Costermonger.)
“Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy sword.”—Shakespeare: Richard III., i. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.