a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems liv. 5 Insteid of grene gynger ȝe eit gray gradȝan.

1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 204 The ancient way of dressing Corn, which is yet us'd in several Isles, is call'd Graddan.

c1750 Maxwell Let. in S. Smiles Lives of Engineers (1861) II. 97 The tenants in general lived..on..groats, milk, graddon ground in querns turned by the hand [etc.].

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxv. 278 This Oatmeal is called Graydon Meal.

1790 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. (ed. 5) 323 The lasses are merry at their work of grinding the Graddan.

1806 R. Jamieson Quern Lilt in Sir G. Douglas Scott. Minor Poets (1891) 117 Grind the gradden—grind it.

1808 J. Walker Econ. Hist. Hebrides II. 368 To make gradan bread.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 413 The graddan cake will keep her white teeth in order.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) v. 104 Gradden-meal, i.e. grain dried in a pot over the fire, and then coarsely ground in a hand-mill.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 280 The corn is graddan'd, or burnt out of the ear, instead of being thrashed.

1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 9 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 190 There were oat-cakes, made of what is called graddaned meal, that is, meal made of grain separated from the husks, and toasted by fire, instead of being threshed and kiln-dried.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 281 Graddened corn was the parched corn of Holy Writ.

1864 J. B. Greenshields Ann. Parish Lesmahagow 34 The process of graddening was conducted thus.