| 单词 | hummel corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmashummel corn 2. Of corn or grain: Awnless. hummel corn, ‘a term applied to the lighter grain of any kind, or that which falls from the rest when it is fanned’ (Jamieson); hence used attributively ‘mean, poor’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain hummel corn1474 multure corn1546 tailings1764 tail1775 chicken corna1817 screening1824 pilkins1859 tail-end1859 1474 Acta Audit. (1839) 35/2 vii chalder of hommyll corne. a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 36 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) The ait maill 10 lib: the boll, the humbell corne 7 lib: the boll. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 386 The..hinds..receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two last articles are called hummel corn. 1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) 87 A hummelcorn discourse. < as lemmas |
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