| 单词 | skeg-oat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskeg-oat 1. local. A species of bearded oat, of inferior quality (see quots.). Also attributive in skeg-oat. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats > the oat plant or variety of the oat oateOE purr oats1578 skeg1598 Polish oat1669 Poland oat1683 Poland1692 potato oats1801 swine-oat1819 fatuoid1922 1598 I. R. Fitzherbert's Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) i. xiv. 21 These [rough oats] are for the most barranest Heath or forrest ground that may be, as in Darbishiere, where they call them Skeyggs, and not Oates. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 17 The Oates being good, sound and ful, and not like your southerne Oates light and emptie, which in the north wee call skeggs. 1794 R. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Nottingham 9 It was usual to get five crops running; oats or pease, barley, rye, oats, and lastly skegs. 1804 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) VI. xii. 259 Upon such land he may profitably obtain a crop of skegs. 1832 White Notts. 44 Skegs, a species of oats, are the ‘Avena stipiformis’ of Linnæus. They grow where nothing else will, and..yield a sweet nourishing food. < as lemmas |
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