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bullimong|ˈbʊlɪmʌŋ|
Forms: 4, 9 buli-, 5–7, 9 boly-, 6 bul-, 7 bally-, 8 bollimong, (6 bullimoong, 7 -mung, 8 -mond), 6– bullimong. (7–8 Dicts. have bulli-, bolli-, bullmony.)
[Of obscure composition: the second element is app. imong:—OE. ᵹemang, -mǫng, mixture.]
1. A mixture of various kinds of grain sown together (as oats, pease, and vetches) for feeding cattle. Cf. dredge, meslin, and L. farrago.
1313etc. in Rogers Agric. & Prices II. 174/4 etc. 1494Will of Fyche, Essex (Somerset Ho.), Frumenti et duo quarteria de Bolymong. 1552Huloet, Bolymonge whyche is a kynd of myxture of corne and grayne, farrago. 1577Harrison Descr. Brit. i. xviii, Of mixed corne, as..tares and otes (which they call bulmong)..here is no place to speake. 1601Holland Pliny I. 557 Grain which..is sown for beasts..which they call dredge or ballimong. 1639Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. Unl. xii. §130 Bullimong [mixt provender] is sowne for cattell. 1706in Phillips [see 2]. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bullimony, bullimong, bollimony, etc. 1844Baker in Jrnl. R.A.S. V. i. 4 Peas..are frequently sown with oats..This crop is denominated bullimong.
b. attrib.
1615T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankf. Wks. 1861 I. 127 They are full of farraginous and bullimong mixtures. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 24 If any man mislikes a bully mong drassock more then I, let him take her for all mee.
†2. = buckwheat. Obs.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. liii. 393 The seede is blacke and triangled..like to the seede of Bockweyde or Bolymong. 1598Gerard Herbal i. lx. ⁋4. 83 Buckwheat is called..in English..Bullimong. 1706Phillips, Bollimong or Bollmong, Buck-wheat, a kind of Grain: Also a Medley of several sorts of Grain together, otherwise call'd Mastin, or Mong-corn. |