| 单词 | bread meal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread meal bread meal n. (a) grain or meal used or suitable for making bread (regional in later use) (now rare); †(b) diatomaceous earth, said to have been used in parts of Scandinavia to make a kind of bread; cf. mountain meal n. (a) at mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2b(a) (obsolete rare). [In sense (b) from a misunderstanding of Humboldt, who reported that the earth was consumed as (i.e. in the manner of) bread meal, not that it was known by this name (see quot. 1850); the misapprehension apparently first appears in Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life (see quot. 1855) and is repeated in later dictionaries.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > corn for bread bread corna1387 bread meal1556 1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Kviij The people driuen of hongre to grinde accornes for bread meale. 1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor II. 174 His family has bread meal, consisting of wheat, rye, and barley, allowed them at 1s. 6d. a stone. 1850 E. C. Otté & H. G. Bohn tr. A. von Humboldt Views of Nature 146 In the most remote parts of Sweden hundreds of cartloads of earth containing infusoria are annually consumed by the country people as bread-meal [Ger. als Brotmehl], more from fancy..than from necessity. 1855 J. F. W. Johnston Chem. of Common Life (ed. 4) II. xxiii. 174 In Northern Europe, especially in the remote northern parts of Sweden, a kind of earth known by the name of bread-meal is consumed in hundreds of cart-loads, it is said, every year. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Bread-meal, flour with the coarsest bran taken out..such as..produces ‘brown-bread’. 1982 Econ. Hist. Rev. 35 463 ‘Mashlum’, the Scots bread meal, was usually a mixture of bere, peas and beans. < as lemmas |
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