单词 | oaten |
释义 | oatenadj.n. A. adj. 1. Composed of the grain of oats; made with oatmeal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [adjective] > oats oaten1381 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of the oat plant oaten1381 suggeron1563 oaty1603 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 64 For to make a Colys. Nym hennys..; nym þe lyre..& bray it wiþ otyn grotys. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 182 (MED) Hungir hem helide wiþ an hot [v.r. oten] cake. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 156 (MED) Lete þe seke..ete no mete bote bred ant potage, ymad of welcarscen & of whyte wyne & oten mele. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 47 Take porke, wele þou hit sethe With otene grotes. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 24 They lacked oten meale to make cakes withall. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 334 The wardens shall make a stryke, halfe stryke..the mesurs to be selyd & delyueryd to the sellers of oton-meele. 1587 T. Churchyard Disc. Mountaynes 112 in Worthines of Wales Loe the Lord, such blessing there doth giue, That sweet content, with Oten Cakes can liue. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 537 They did eate..oten bread. 1623 E. Sharpham Fleire iii. i Send her an Oten cake, t'is a good Northern token. 1726 H. Baker Second Part Orig. Poems 76 A wretched Cottage Swain: his Sunday Cheer Was Kale and oaten Bread, and Water was his Beer. 1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. 7 With three crowns..You shall daintily be fed; Bacon, beans, salt beef and cabbage, Butter, milk, and oaten-bread. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xiii. 175 in Waverley Novels XV Dalgetty..began to munch at the stale black oaten loaf with as much heartiness as we have seen him play his part at better viands. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 72 Oaten cakes..are much used in Lancashire. 1852 S. S. Cox Buckeye Abroad xxxv. 398 Sandy spoke the unquestioned Gaelic drawn from an undefiled well, and where scawns and oaten meal cakes were eaten. 1910 W. Boyle Mineral Workers i. i. 16 You used to have white baker's loaf and I had always oaten cake for luncheon. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 233 In the upper, wetter reaches of the highland zone oaten hearthcakes were probably already coming into use as the local bread. 2007 J. Pettigrew Tradit. Teatime Recipes (ed. 2) 25 Buttermilk Oaten Bread. Fine oatmeal gives a wonderful gritty texture to this favourite Irish bread. 2. Chiefly poetic. Of a musical pipe: made of a straw or stem of an oat; (also, of a tune) played on an oaten pipe. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > types of oatena1387 wheaten1565 kexen1579 Leghorn1801 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 11 (MED) Who wolde schoute to skorne, ȝif I pipe wiþ an otene reed [L. avena]. 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) iv Then one of them, (when that he had wyth oten musicke played) His staring eyes on heauen cast. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 72 [He] broke his oaten pype. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Fv Tune on my pipe the praises of my Loue, And midst thy oaten harmonie recount How faire she is. 1602 W. Basse Three Pastoral Elegies iii. sig. E3 I with this happy flocke alone did sing, And pipe the oaten galliard euery day. 1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 145 Not knowing what to thinke, much lesse to say: His oten pipe he then let fall through feare. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King The rurall ditties..Temper'd to th' oaten flute. 1746 W. Collins Odes 36 Ought of Oaten Stop, or Pastoral Song. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. iii. 94 Oh! sweet Theocritus! had I thine oaten reed. a1864 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) I. 75 Shepherds all alive In merry dittys tune their oaten strains And waken Echo in the distant plains. 1894 T. W. H. Crosland Pink Bk. 54 A shepherd lad, with lips red-ripe, Lay piping on an oaten pipe. 1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 107 Their goat-feet clattering to the oaten tune cools the heat of noon like water gurgling. 3. Of or relating to the oat plant; made from the oat plant. oaten hay = oat hay n. at oat n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for horses horsemeat1404 horse-bread1467 horse-loafc1468 bayard's bunc1520 garbage1526 bait1570 rack-meat1607 greaves1614 ray1656 gram1702 oat hay1843 oaten hay1891 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats > oat sheaves oat hay1843 oaten hay1891 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxx. 146 Drawing it in with an oaten straw. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. x. 366 It was a Hovel..not covered Cathedral like with Lead..but according to the Scotch custom, very meanly thatcht with Oaten Reeds. a1871 P. Cary in A. Cary & P. Cary Poet. Wks. (1877) 285 They played with the maize's sword-like leaves, And tossed the rye and the oaten sheaves. 1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 141 The farmers grow their maize and their oaten hay and sell it, and are comfortably off. 1899 Daily News 30 June 5/3 There has recently been some demand in Australia for ‘oaten hay’, for English race horses. 1903 A. Austin Flodden Field ii. 83 With her to moil in mountain field, When oaten stooks are dried. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 74 The sweet oaten reek of horsepiss. 1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 12 Feb. 18/2 Good quality oaten hay is scarce and although demand is slow prices have increased. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [adjective] > bearing good crop oaten1638 well-croppeda1652 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iv. sig. Bb3 Thence to oaten Ouston fruitfull. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 958 The Oaten land or Muske Thistle. = oat n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > made of straw reeda1387 fistulaa1398 oat reeda1522 quill1567 reed pipe1567 oat-pipe1586 oat1587 straw1598 whistle-stalka1657 oaten1825 1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 469 Which, when as the oaten spoke, From their green dreams aye awoke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1381 |
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