| 单词 | rivets wheat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrivets wheat b. English regional. In plural. Also rivets wheat. ΚΠ 1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 530 This family have been used to buy two bushels of clog-wheat, or rivets, or bearded-wheat, (as it is variously called in this county) every fortnight. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 182 Bearded wheat is called in some counties Cone wheat, in others Rivets, and in Nottinghamshire it is called Yeogrove. 1813 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford 362 Cone wheat, or rivets, is very little used. 1895 Min. Evid. Royal Comm. Agric. III. 217/1 I am booking my oats at 16s., my offal barley at 20s., my rivets wheat at 20s., and my best wheat at 22s. 1926 Glasgow Herald 11 Aug. 11 The Essex fields are yielding 35 bushels of the prolific sorts such as cones and revits. 1953 S. Peat in J. A. Radley Starch & its Derivatives (ed. 3) I. ii. 17 Barnell made observations on Rivets wheat. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 247/1 Rivets, bearded wheat. < as lemmas |
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