wheatn.
/wiːt/, U.S. /(h)wit/ 1.
a. The grain of a cereal (see sense 2), furnishing a meal or flour which constitutes the chief breadstuff in temperate countries.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > grain separated from chaff
wheatc825
threshinga1382
sheeling?a1513
shelling1705
sheeling-seeds1802
thrashing1898
the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-cornc1000
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
dreadnought1911
c825 Vesp. Ps. lxiv. 14 [lxv. 13] Convalles abundabunt frumento, dene genyhtsumiað hwæte.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 12 He gegaderað hys hwæte on his bern.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10527 I þa þatt swelltenn winndweþþ crist. & clennseþþ here hiss whæte.
c1220 Bestiary 292 in Old Eng. Misc. 10 Ðe mire suneð ðe barlic, Ðanne ȝe fint te wete.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 198 A wimmon..þe winwede hwete.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10091 Þe vble ys made of whete, Þe louelyest corne þat men ete.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 18 Vor engelonde is vol inoȝ of frut & ek of tren, Of wit [a1400 Trin. Cambr. whyt, c1425 Harl. whyte] & of wolle god.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 22327 Þe mett of qwet, als it es tald, For a peni it sal be sald.
1464 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 68 The chirchemen of Dudcote wer in bargenyng off a ryke of weete for the welfare and help off the church.
c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 214 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 487 In þe hawine schipis gret ware arywit, chargit with quhet.
1485–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 291 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The busshell of whette..be boghte for, xii.d.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) viii. 187 The rasour of whete was solde for fourty shelynges and twenty pence.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 361 in Poems (1981) 18 Full beinly stuffit..Off peis and nuttis, beinis, ry, and quheit.
?1552 Certayne Causes Decaye Eng. sig. Aviij Allowe to euery person .ij. quarters of weate.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 4 Thys yere a bushelle of wett was at five shillings.
1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 218 L. stroke queat unbarrowed.
1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet iii. sig. C1 I can tell you their mouthes will not be stopt with a bushell of wheat that speake it.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song (rev. ed.) viii, in Poems (new ed.) I. 184 An ill-used race of men..Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil.
b. in allusive and proverbial use: often opposed to chaff, tares.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful thing > useful part of anything
wheata1225
a1225 Juliana 79 Hwen drihtin o domes dei windweð his hweate.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 59 It were a schort beyete To winne chaf and lese whete.
1561 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 120 Guid and euill, expressit in the Euangell, be the similitude of quheit and fitcheis.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pain Quiers tu meilleur pain que de fourment? Wouldst thou haue better bread then's made of wheat?
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 46 Malt is above the wheat with him. Cylicum remiges.
1874 Sankey's Sacred Songs (1878) 11 Let us keep the wheat and roses, Casting out the thorns and chaff.
1874 C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) II. 38 He had now got a good handful of pure wheat to offer in the place of his common sackful of the most unnutritious chaff.
1877 N.Y. Tribune Apr. Surprised that he took it all for wheat, and in innocence of his heart was about to carry it into effect.
2.
a. The cereal plant (closely related to barley and rye) which yields this grain, esp. common wheat, Triticum vulgare (sativum), cultivated in temperate climates.With qualification denoting a particular kind, as duck-bill wheat at duck-bill n. a, goat's wheat n. at goat n. and adj. Compounds 3b, Guinea n. wheat, Indian wheat n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(b), Lammas-wheat n. at Lammas n. Compounds 2, Poland n.1 wheat, pollard wheat (pollard n.2 1), red wheat n., rivet-wheat (rivet n.3), spelt-wheat at spelt n.1 Compounds, summer wheat at summer n.1 and adj. Compounds 4a, turkey wheat n., white wheat n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(b)(ii), winter n.1 wheat; also applied to some plants of other genera, as buckwheat n., cow-wheat n., French wheat n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1d.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > wheat plant
wheatc950
wheat-corn1425
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 25 Mið ðy uutedlice geslepdon..ða menn cuom fiond his & ofer-geseawu..sifðe In middum hwæte.
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 692 Hue tilede in hur time on þe touh erþe, & whete soþliche sew.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (W. de W.) xvii. clxviii. V ij/2 Of whete is dowble kynde: One manere kynde is red wythout..and is moost whyte wythin, & heuy... The other manere whete is yelowe wythout and clere and whyte wythin: and is lyghte.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 134 In þis cuntree es lytill qwheet or barly.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 80 Sithis, and all hukis that scheris quheit.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 21 Graie wheat is the grosest, yet good for the clay... Much like vnto rie, be his properties found.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 185 When wheat is greene, when hauthorne buddes appeare. View more context for this quotation
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 60 A third kinde of wheate..which is called holie wheate or sommer wheate.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 415 I found the Wheat here growing higher then my head.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 846/1 The three principal kinds of bad wheat are, the blighted, the smutty, and the worm-eaten.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) v. 103 Wheat will not thrive in hot climates.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 587 The tall wheat, coloured by the August fire Grew heavy-headed.
b. The pale gold colour of ripe wheat. Also wheat-gold.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow
gullnessa1300
butter colour1629
wheat-colour1711
straw colour1737
jonquil1791
straw-yellow1794
straw1799
wax-yellow1805
sulphur-yellow1816
wax-colour1854
daffodil1855
sulphur-colour1866
sherry colour1871
tea rose1872
mastic1890
wheat1915
sulphur1924
straw-gold1963
buttermilk1977
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iii. 83 Joan Valentine was a tall girl, with wheat-gold hair.
1965 J. Caird Murder Reflected ii. 19 She had hair of true wheat-gold, worn up in a French roll.
1970 New Yorker 8 Aug. 1 (advt.) Great embroidered coat of cotton-polyester in wheat with pumpernickel trim.
1977 M. Herr Dispatches 175 He was wearing a denim workshirt and wheat jeans.
1983 Harrods Mag. Spring 104/2 Cotton trousers in White, Wheat, Slate Blue or Navy.
1984 H. Hirt Heat of Winter i. 2 His face was..very fair—what the Indian matrimonial advertisements describe as a ‘wheat’ complexion.
3. plural. Wheat-plants; crops of wheat; kinds of wheat.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > wheat plant > wheat plants
wheats1795
1795 Scots Mag. 57 544/1 In Lancashire..their wheats are not yet on the bloom.
1797 Sporting Mag. 10 297 The new Wheats already thrashed out.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 429 They are frequently also sown on the young wheats and clovers in the spring.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 339 The bread of Perth in particular, where those wheats are alone used, equals any in the united kingdom.
1888 Daily News 13 Oct. 2/6 Foreign white wheats..have hardened to a small advance on the week.
1894 Times 22 Jan. 4/1 The young wheats..looking little or none the worse for their week beneath the snow.
Compounds
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a. General attributive.
wheat-acre n.
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1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 177 The blue wheat-acre is underneath.
wheat-area n.
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1884 Spectator No. 2932. 1165 Whether the wheat-area of the world will be maintained.
wheat-awn n.
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1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. xxii. 323 I caught a limb [sc. of oak], and tore it (like a wheat-awn) from the socket.
wheat-barn n.
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1377 Close Roll, 51 Edward III (P.R.O.: C 54/216) m. 24v Grangiam vocatam le Wheteberne.
1474–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 156 Pro tectura..super le Whetebarn Manerii de Elvet.
1543 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 42 In the whiett barne, whaytt and rye.
wheat-blade n.
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1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 14 The dead log touched bursts into leaf, The wheat-blade whispers of the sheaf.
wheat-blossom n.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiii. 71 The nipping Winds..which..might destroy the tender Wheat Blossoms.
wheat-blossoming n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 299 The cows milk abates about wheat-blossoming time.
wheat-braird n.
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1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 150 The wheat-braird was strong.
wheat-bran n.
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14.. Sir Beues (C.) 1622 + 21 Ȝyt was he wonte before eche day,..Of whyte brawne to haue a messe.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 75 Tak whete branne als myche as sufficeþ.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 257 If a little Wheat-bran is boiled in our ordinary Beer.
1946 Nature 31 Aug. 293/1 The fungus was grown in various modifications of Czapek–Dox medium with addition of manganese sulphate, in some cases with..autoclaved wheat-bran extract.
wheat-bread n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > wheaten bread
wheat-bread1377
flour-bread17..
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vii. 120 Þough whete bred me faille.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. O.iv The beste and pureste wheate bread, that conueniently maye be gotten.
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 18 As for Wheat-bread it is rare.
1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas v. 83 I live entirely on food made of corn..leaving the wheat bread for grand-ma and grand-pa.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xlix. 574 Hot wheat-bread, Southern style.
1978 Listener 10 Aug. 180/3 Oatcakes, potato cakes and wheat bread were cooked deliciously on a griddle.
wheat-breeder n.
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1912 Rep. 13th Meeting Australasian Assoc. Adv. Sci. 536 (heading) The realization of the aims of William J. Farrer, wheat breeder.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 1157/2 Wheat breeders regularly produce new varieties.
wheat-breeding n.
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1898 W. J. Farrer Let. 30 Aug. in R. Archer William James Farrer (1949) xiv. 109 I should continue to carry on the wheat-breeding work at Lambrigg.
1965 Austral. Encycl. IX. 284 b (caption) Wheat~breeding plots at the Temora Experiment Farm.
wheat-cake n.
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1772 M. Patten Diary (1903) 293 His wife baked a parcel of Wheat Cakes for me when I went up to Cockermouth.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 218 There are wheat-cakes and maple syrup for your breakfast.
1981 J. Dunning Deadline (1982) xix. 191 Trudy fixed him a breakfast of eggs and bacon and wheat cakes.
wheat-chaff n.
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20v Wheat chaffe lay vp dry.
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 149/1 Supposing that the stomach be distended by light materials, as wheat-chaff, chopped straw.
wheat-colour n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow
gullnessa1300
butter colour1629
wheat-colour1711
straw colour1737
jonquil1791
straw-yellow1794
straw1799
wax-yellow1805
sulphur-yellow1816
wax-colour1854
daffodil1855
sulphur-colour1866
sherry colour1871
tea rose1872
mastic1890
wheat1915
sulphur1924
straw-gold1963
buttermilk1977
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 150 The hair on the upper [lip] being thin and short of a wheat Colour.
wheat country n.
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1776 New-York Gaz. 24 June 3/3 To be Sold..a very good Grist-Mill..in a very good Wheat Country.
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 101 The states of New York..to Tennessee are properly the wheat country of the union.
1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 29 Mar. 5/3 The panhandle country..is a fine wheat country.
1979 Tanous & Rubinstein Wheat Killing (1980) ix. 55 We were in the flat wheat country drained by the Missouri River.
wheat-crop n.
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1581 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 42 All the wheat crope, that is sowen upon my farmhold.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 338 That my wheat-crops would be hurt by the north-easterly winds.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) xiii. §1. 834 Land which might have been supposed to have been exhausted of its phosphates by a previous wheat-crop.
wheat-crust n.
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1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. ii. 65 Your course wheat-crust would bee kneaded with hot-water.
wheat-drill n.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 148 In the Side of a Mortise of a Wheat-Drill.
wheat-eddish n.
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1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxiv. 76 Immediately after harvest I turn them on the wheat eddishes.
wheat-fallow n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 20 They..will not allow a load of..dung at harvest to come through their wheat-fallow.
wheat-farm n.
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1958 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 6 Farmers who have large wheat-farms.
wheat-farmer n.
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1870 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1869 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 5 The wheat farmer..is not joyous over his market returns.
1959 Cape Times 18 July 2/5 Wheat farmers welcomed the good rains.
wheat-farming n.
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1965 Austral. Encycl. IX. 285/2 The most spectacular change in wheat-farming practice in recent years.
wheat-feed n.
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1932 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 4/2 Oats quiet of sale... Millers' wheatfeed quiet.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. 4/2 Demand for wheatfeed is steady.
wheat-field n.
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1425 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 108 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 That no man take away his bestes fro the comyn herd..to go in the qwete feld to lese the qwete.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 209 By laying corne-grounds and wheat-fields to his owne demaines.
1843 H. W. Longfellow Spanish Student iii. i. 123 Over the wheat fields, where the shadows sail.
wheat-firlot n.
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1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 706/2 That the wheat firlot shall contain 19 pints and two joucattes.
wheat-flour n.
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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > flour from specific cereals
rye flour?a1425
wheat-floura1425
barley-flour1620
randan1743
cornflour1791
suji1810
sattu1814
Oswego flour1855
atta1860
corn starch1862
Oswego1881
kalo1966
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 31 When..þer is added þerto white of eiren and oyle, wiþ wax and whete floure.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxx[i]. 16 He shulde fede them with the fynest wheate floure.
1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 102 Fry them together till they be thick with a little wheatflower.
1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 456 A mucilaginous vegetable paste..as wheat-flower and water.
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 175/1 Gruel made of fine wheat-flour.
wheat-garner n.
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1453–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 634 Operanti..super..emendacionem de le Whetgarner.
wheat-grain n.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-cornc1000
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
dreadnought1911
c1400 Rom. Rose 5590 An hundred mavis [? mowis] of whete greyne.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iii. 186 It has now..sifted out the true wheat-grains of National Deputies.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 520/1 For years millers have laboured to provide us with a perfectly white loaf, throwing away some of the most valuable parts of the wheat-grain in so doing.
wheat-ground n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 17 He sows on his wheat-ground..about February.
wheat-grower n.
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1765 Museum Rusticum 4 348 That is a profit more than the rent of the ground, and half as much again above the profit of the wheat-grower.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 18 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The pioneer upon the prairie is a wheat-grower.
wheat-harvest n.
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxx. 14 And Ruben goon out in tyme of wheet heruest into the feeld.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiii. 71 If their Wheat-Harvest in Sicily be about the 20th of May.
wheat-haulm n.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 130 Genim gate tord & hwæte healm gebærn to duste.
1740 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer i. 5 Wheat Straw under a Hair-Cloth is reckon'd the best Fuel by most, Rye Straw next, and Wheat Haulm worse.
wheat-house n.
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1559 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 143 For covering ye whete house ut patet per billam.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus June 7 Lay it in the best place you have, for which the Wheat-Houses now in request..are I think the best.
wheat-loaf n.
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1534 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 208 The Baillye..Weyed ageyn his bredde wiche was to leight in the 1d Whete loffe iiij ounces.
wheat-loft n.
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1587 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 26 [A] wheate loft.
wheat-lumper n.
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1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Jan. 14/3 Harrison, a Wallendbeen (N.S.W.) wheat-lumper, carried 1170 bags of wheat the other day.
wheat-lumping n.
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1957 D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over v. 132 He would take on anything, wheat-lumping, tree-felling, shearing—always ringing the shed—droving, anything at all that suited him.
wheat-malt n.
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1452 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 275 Drege malte, pese, benes, whetemalte.
1568 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 325 Ne any brewer..grinde their wheate malte in..any other mill.
1736 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer II. ii. 8 Wheat Malt also differs much from Barley Malt.
wheat-mill n.
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 185/1 Chondrocopium farreum,..a wheate mill or (as some say) an otemeale mill.
wheat-mow n.
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c1700 Bagford Ballads (1876) i. 66 Both his Wheat Mows & his Hay, By Flames of Fire are consum'd away.
1808 W. Cobbett in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) I. 43 The hares will be heard squeaking like rats on the breaking up of a wheat-mow.
wheat-plant n.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 52 If the Hoe-Plow goes so near to the Rows as it ought, it would be apt to tear out the Wheat-Plants along with the Stubble.
wheat-planting n.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 17 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A disposition to increase the breadth of wheat-planting.
wheat-producer n.
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1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 6/3 Canada aims at being the great wheat-producer of the world.
wheat-production n.
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1884 Spectator No. 2932. 1165/2 To increase wheat-production in India.
wheat ranch n.
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1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade i. 1 Thus it is common to hear of a corn ranch, a wheat ranch, a sheep ranch.
1947 Mazama Dec. 1/1 An overnight trip to the 500-acre wheat and stock ranch..near Wamic.
wheat rancher n.
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1947 Chicago Tribune 1 Nov. 11/4 A former life term prisoner..admitted the..slaying of a retired Canadian wheat rancher.
1977 J. Gillis Killers of Starfish (1979) v. 32 Maybe he was a big wheat rancher.
wheat-rick n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 182 In that fashion, without thatching, they make wheat-reeks in the Isle of Wight.
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 409 Few farm-houses..but in one of them there was a wheat-rick.
wheat-ridge n.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 51 I find by Measuring my Wheat Ridges in the Spring, that none of them are quite a Foot High.
1860 R. S. Hawker in Life (1905) 323 No one ever remembers the aspect of the wheat-ridges so mournfully unpromising.
wheat-riping n.
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges xv. 1 Whanne the dais of whete ripynge stooden yn.
wheat-seed n.
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1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 309 The..Wheat-seed Plough.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 225 He..had worked with other horses all the wheat-seed time.
wheat-seeding n.
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1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 724 Certaine waxe candles, which euer and onely they vsed to light in wheat-seeding.
1729 P. Walkden Diary 17 Sept. (1866) 44 When he ended his wheat seeding.
wheat-sheaf n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > sheaf
sheafc725
reapeOE
yelmc1000
garbc1460
wheat-sheafc1530
gerbe1807
c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 329 Item a greate Bason withe a Wheyte Sheffe in the bottom.
1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 127 God knowes who shal pay goodman Yeomans, for his wheat sheafe.
1782 A. Highmore Ramble Coast Sussex (1873) 15 Nature..shewed us her Wheatsheaf—and her Autumn Horn.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 403 A wheat-sheaf should never contain more than two or three handsful.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 375 The cones [of the kidney] which are often compressed in their centres to the well-known wheat-sheaf shape.
wheat-sowing n.
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1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. A.iiiiv October, for wheate sowing, calleth as fast.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 156 Wheat-sowing is yet going on on the Wold.
wheat-stack n.
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1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 126 To-day..nine men,—three boys,—three teams,—and four carriages, have made a very handsome Wheat-Stack of eighteen harvest loads.
wheat-stalk n.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 28 The stalke or steale thereof [sc. of rye], is smaller then the Wheate stalke.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiii. 73 The lower Parts of the Wheat Stalks must receive the greater share of Heat.
1880 G. Meredith Pheobus with Admetus iv Stately stood the wheatstalk, with head bent high.
wheat-starch n.
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 109/2 Amylon,..wheatestarch.
1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 154 Tapioca-meal, East Indian arrow-root..wheat-starch.
wheat-straw n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > wheat-straw
haulmc825
reed1415
wheat-straw?1523
reed straw1628
wheat-reed1811
14.. Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 755 in Anglia XVIII. 325 His stalke is gret as whete-stro.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi The whete strawe that they purpose to make thacke of.
1789 T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 43 The hay is almost as long, coarse, and dry, as wheat-straw.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iii. 90 100 sheaves of wheat-straw reed.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 303 It is..said that Wheat-straw may be melted into a colourless glass with the blow-pipe.
c1903 O. Read in Library Southern Lit. (1909) X. 4374 The Squatter, with his wheat-straw beard, his hay hair and his autumn leaf complexion.
1941 L. B. Lyon Tomorrow is Revealing 44 A son with a bird's glint, and wheat-straw hair.
wheat-stubble n.
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1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 48 They plough in the wheat stubble in December.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 478 The wheat stubbles are ploughed as soon as the wheat sowing is over.
wheat-threave n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > sheaf > specific quantity of
thrave963
wheat-threave1812
lightness1844
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 330 The wheat-threave consists of twenty-eight sheaves.
wheat-wine n.
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1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI liii. 25 With gold cup of wheat-wine That he go afield to spring ploughing.
1982 C. Thomas Jade Tiger 52 Wheat wine, almost pure alcohol.
b.
wheat-belt n. belt n.1 10b.
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1863 Harper's Mag. Oct. 718/1 The enterprising town..is the wheat-market for a considerable section of the wheat-belt of the state.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 205/2 The laying out of ready-made farms in the wheat-belts of North-West Canada.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Mar. 175/2 In the wheat belts in the USA and Australia there were..large areas still undeveloped.
wheat-close n. close n.1 2.
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1599 George a Greene sig. C1v Madge pointed to meete me in your wheate close.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 104 He's in Gaffer Gabblewood's wheat-close.
wheat cocky n. Australian cocky n.2 2.
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1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Mar. 13 A good, typical S. Australian public man—a wheat cocky.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxi. 228 Like many another broken ‘wheat cocky’..Jim might be packing his kids and wife into his old truck any time now.
wheat futures n. future n. 6.
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1908 ‘O. Henry’ in Amer. Mag. Sept. 435/1 After I had taken some $9,000,000 out of the soap business I made the rest in corn and wheat futures.
1979 Tanous & Rubinstein Wheat Killing (1980) ii. 13 The rise in the wheat price will mean a fortune to them if they own the wheat futures.
wheat-glean n. glean n.1 1.
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c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 96 The whete glene crowned above the greyne.
wheat-pit n. pit n.1 12a.
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1884 Depew in Harper's Mag. (1886) XII. 217 In the Wheat Pit at Chicago in a single year was buried more of the future prosperity of this republic than the sum of all the traffic which flows through that great city in a decade.
wheat-reed n. reed n.1 6a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > wheat-straw
haulmc825
reed1415
wheat-straw?1523
reed straw1628
wheat-reed1811
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 266 Wheat-reed, straw preserved unthrashed for thatching.
wheat-screenings n. cf. screening n. 2b.
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1855 Poultry Chron. 3 343 Wheat-screenings, cracked corn,..or buckwheat, may be added to their diet.
wheat-scrip n. scrip n.4
c.
wheat-bellied adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 191 Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin.
wheat-blazing adj.
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1937 E. Blunden Elegy 60 Seek the wide wheat-blazing plain.
wheat-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
1898 Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 3/2 The wheat-coloured straw.
wheat-fed adj.
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1892 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Feb. 89/3 The wheat-fed pork of the North West.
wheat-growing adj.
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1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. (ed. 2) 23 Pennsylvania, then one of the best wheat-growing States.
wheat-hid adj.
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1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 50 And lonely chirp the wheat-hid quails.
d. Applied to insects, fungi, etc. destructive to wheat.
wheat-bug n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > miris tritici or erraticus
wheat-bug1860
1860 J. Curtis Farm Insects Index Wheat-bugs. Miris tritici and M. erraticus.
wheat-caterpillar n.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxi. 277 This door is to serve the moth for its exit, like that formed by the wheat-caterpillar.
wheat-gall-fly n.
wheat-gnat n.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xliv. 221 The Ichneumon of the wheat-gnat.
wheat-insect n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > tipula tritici
wheat-insect1819
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Cecidomyiidae > member of (wheat midge)
Hessian fly1787
wheat-fly1798
wheat-insect1819
wheat-midge1840
1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 53 The Hessian fly, or wheat insect (Tipula tritici).
wheat-joint-worm n.
wheat-louse n.
wheat-maggot n.
wheat-midge n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Cecidomyiidae > member of (wheat midge)
Hessian fly1787
wheat-fly1798
wheat-insect1819
wheat-midge1840
1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects ii. 123 The Wheat Midge... The perfect insect has a distant [sic] resemblance to the common midge, but is smaller.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 304 The wheat-midge (Cecidomyia tritici).
1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. xi. 169 Wheat midge was especially destructive in 1926 in the eastern counties.
wheat-mildew n.
wheat-mite n.
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1860 J. Curtis Farm Insects Index Wheat-mite. An acarus infesting stored corn.
wheat-moth n.
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1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) Index Wheat moths.
wheat-plant-louse n.
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1860 J. Curtis Farm Insects Index Wheat plant-louse, Aphis granaria.
wheat-weevil n.
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1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 83 The true grain-weevil or wheat-weevil of Europe.
wheat-worm n.
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1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 453 They have been called wheat-worms, gray worms, and brown weevils... The name of grain-worms has likewise sometimes been applied to them.
e. Applied to implements used in obtaining or preparing the wheat-grain.
wheat-brush n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 945/1 Wheat Brush, a device for scouring grain.
wheat-dryer n.
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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 113/1 Model of the Patent Wheat Dryer.
wheat-flail n.
wheat-heater n.
wheat-ridder n.
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c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 32 Take a seve or a wheterydoun.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 200 Our Wheat-ridder Sieves.
wheat-riddle n.
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1479–80 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. cccxlvii ij whetridils, iij haveridils, et ij cribris.
1729 P. Walkden Diary 22 Sept. (1866) (modernized text) 45 Windowed my wheat the chaff out of it, but, for want of a wheat riddle, we could dress it no further.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 281 A wheat-riddle of wood.
wheat-separator n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 946/1 Wheat Separator. The separation of mustard, cockle, and grass seed from the wheat is effected by passing the mixed grains over inclined plates perforated with holes.
wheat-sieve n.
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1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 390 It should be pounded till it will run through a wheat-sieve.
C2. Special combinations. See also wheat-corn n., etc.
wheat-barley n. = naked barley (naked adj. 11b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > types of barley or barley-plant
polbere1440
bigg1446
long-ear?1523
sprat-barley?1523
waybent1538
wall barley1548
barley-bigg1552
bigg-barley1562
polbarley1574
pilled barley1578
way bennet1578
wheat-barley1578
French barley1596
way barley1597
rough bere1642
palm-barley1706
Scotch barley1707
square barleya1722
Thor-barley1755
ware-bere1793
barley-grass1795
German rice1828
battledore barley1848
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. viii. 460 Hordeum Nudum. Naked or bare Barley, Wheate Barley.
wheat berry n. the grain of wheat.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-cornc1000
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat
wheatc825
wheat-grainc1400
wheat berry1848
dreadnought1911
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 373 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI Taking the outer coating or bran from the wheat berry previous to grinding produces the following important results.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 8/1 The wheatberry, to become blood, bone, and flesh, must be broken up.
wheat-bird n. a bird that feeds on wheat, esp. the chaffinch; also, in North America, the horned lark, Eremophila alpestris.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that eats specific things
worm-fowlc1381
seed fowlc1500
thistle-eater1562
chipper1668
honeyeater1688
wheat-bird1747
falcon-fisher1759
worm-eater1760
bone-breaker1787
seed eater1820
carrion-bird1839
seed feeder1853
fish-tiger1879
the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous
night-raveneOE
cold-finch1676
crane1678
diver1694
solitary1708
wheat-bird1747
yellow-bill1775
Chinese thrush1781
whidah thrush1781
tomtit1789
solitaire1797
year-bird1798
softbill1830
swift-shrike1841
scissor bird1843
seed finch1862
sea-flyer1869
stalker1872
seven sisters1873
dicky bird1879
baboon bird1883
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch)
spinkc1425
chaffinchc1440
sheld-apple1544
shilfa1684
guinet1725
wheat-bird1747
piefinch1779
scobby1800
beech-finch1815
pink1816
twink1816
whitewing1854
spinkie1911
1747 M. Catesby in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 444 They [sc. exotic Birds] arrive [in Virginia] annually at the time that Wheat..is at a certain Degree of Maturity... They have attain'd the Name of Wheat-Birds.
1865 E. A. Samuels in Rep. Comm. Agric. 1864 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 422 White-throated Sparrow—Peabody Bird—Wheat Bird... This beautiful sparrow arrives in Massachusetts by the first week in April.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. ii. 212 Horned Lark..[also called] Prairie Bird; Road Trotter; Wheat Bird.
wheat bulb fly n. the larva of a muscid fly, Hylemyia coarctata, which attacks the base of wheat stems.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > larva of hylemia coarctata or wheat bulb fly
wheat bulb fly1883
1883 E. A. Ormerod Rep. Observ. Injurious Insects 20 Wheat-bulb fly..was observable early in March.
1921 Jrnl. Agric. Sci. 11 98 Wheat-bulb fly..does not appear to do much harm in a wet, cold, or damp summer.
1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 67/1 The topics covered in the first few months of the scheme include cereal mildew, wheat bulb fly, yellow rust.
wheat-duck n. the American widgeon, Mareca americana, found in flocks in wheat-fields.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon)
bald-face1709
bald-pate1813
poacher1888
wheat-duck1888
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 21 He found this species [sc. the American widgeon] in enormous flocks on the wheat~fields, and..it was there called the wheat-duck.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 120 Wheat Duck..is very fond of wild celery.
1980 Hunting Ann. 1981 40/3 A wigeon in one region would be called a baldpate in another area or wheatduck in another.
wheat-fish n. the squeteague.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague)
bass1530
trout1604
weakfish1686
sea bass1765
corvina1787
salmon1798
sheep's head1836
squeteague1838
grey trout1856
white trout1861
roncador1867
shad-trout1884
squit1884
bastard trout1888
wheat-fish1888
yellowfin1888
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 111 The Squeteague... Some old authorities use the name ‘Wheat-fish’.
wheatflakes n. originally U.S. (plural) a breakfast cereal made from flaked and flavoured wheat (cf. cornflake n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > breakfast cereals
granola1886
cornflakes1890
cereal1899
shredded wheat1899
wheatflakes1903
Post Toasties1908
Wheaties1925
Rice Krispies1928
Pablum1932
Weetabix1936
muesli1939
flakes1951
snap, crackle, pop1954
sugar puff1957
granola1970
1903 Bull. Maine Agric. Exper. Station No. 84. 143 Fruen's Best Wheat Flakes, ‘made from the best Pacific Coast White Wheat’.
1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads ii. 45 He looked up from his dry wheat flakes.
1970 M. Kelly Spinifex ii. 37 A grocer size wheatflakes box.
wheat-fly n. name for various insects whose larvæ infest the wheat plant, as the Hessian fly, the wheat-midge, etc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > infesting wheat-plant
wheat-fly1798
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Cecidomyiidae > member of (wheat midge)
Hessian fly1787
wheat-fly1798
wheat-insect1819
wheat-midge1840
1798 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. VirginianWheat fly, a mischievous insect in the American state: It eats the grain, and is a moth in a perfect state.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 951 The wheat-fly, Cecidomyia tritici.
wheat germ n. the embryo of the wheat grain, extracted during milling, and valued as a source of vitamins.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > wheatgerm
wheat germ1897
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of or containing wheat > of, belonging to, or resembling wheat plant > of wheat-germ
wheat germ1897
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 15/3 Wheat Germ Meal... Cooked in 5 minutes.
1933 Discovery May 160/1 The richest source of vitamin E is wheat germ.
1980 Sunday Times 20 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 57/3 Wheatgerm Loaf. A good hearty farmhouse loaf.
wheat-grass n. (a) name for various species of the genus Triticum, esp. couch-grass, T. repens; (b) a creeping perennial grass of the genus Agropyron.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > wheatgrass
wheat-grass1668
sea-wheatgrass1796
sea-wheat1839
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass
quitcheOE
quicka1400
quicken?c1425
couch-grass1578
twitch1588
twitch grass1588
dog grass1597
sea dog's grass1597
quick grass1617
couch1637
wheat-grass1668
scutch1686
quickenings1762
quicken grass1771
spear-grass1784
squitch1785
witchgrass1790
felt1794
dog-wheat1796
creeping wheat1819
quack1822
switch-grass1840
couch-wheat1884
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 73 Wheat-grass..either the greater used for the making of frails: or the lesser.
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 45 Common Wheat-grass, Dog's-grass, Quick-grass or Couch-grass.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 442 Common Wheat-grass, or Couch-grass.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 173 Sea Wheat-grass. Rush Wheat.
1871 Harper's Mag. July 187/2 Among the more important of these plants the wheat-grass stands pre-eminent.
1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics 186 Several species of Agropyron are important forage grasses on western rangelands, outstanding among which are..bluebunch wheatgrass, and..western wheatgrass.
wheat-lay n. dialect the sowing of land with wheat.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > grain
corning1652
wheat-laya1722
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 324 It may be proper to fold till Christmas, and then go on the wheat-lay.
wheat-rent n. in the Channel Islands, wheat paid as rent (cf. quarter n. 1b).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in produce or livestock > specific
rynmart1433
rynmutton1459
capon1495
mart1520
tack-swine1523
reek hen1540
farm meal1547
reek-poultry1585
reek fowl1592
corn-rate1665
wheat-rent?c1682
nowt-geld1688
farm-dish1713
corn-rent1809
pepper-rent1866
?c1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 94 A man, that has either house or land which he wishes to dispose of,..sells it to another to hold to him and his heirs for ever, paying yearly so many quarters..of wheat rent.
1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of Jersey iii. 95 Together with several Parcels of Lands and Meadows, Wheat-Rents, Escheats.
wheat roll n. a roll made of wheatmeal bread.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll > wheatmeal roll
wheat roll1962
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lix. 447 The dining room I saw was serving wheat rolls, turnips, cabbage and spinach which looked adequate and wholesome.
1978 H. McLeave Borderline Case (1979) iv. 49 Shigo brought hot coffee, wheat rolls baked on the spot, butter.
Wheat State n. in the U.S., a popular nickname for Kansas or Minnesota; also used of South Australia.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > states with specific qualities
border states1842
Sunshine State1887
Equality State1891
Mountain State1891
Wheat State1911
1911 D. Malloch Resawed Fables 65 He had a Friend in the Retail Lumber Business..and he sent him enough Money to get Home to the Wheat State.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. x. 187 Popular names for the various Australian states are:..South Australia: the Wheat State.
1950 R. Meyer Festivals U.S.A. 225 Kansas is sometimes called the Wheat State, but it is more familiarly known as the Sunflower State.
Derivatives
ˈwheatless adj. having no wheat.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of or containing wheat > of, belonging to, or resembling wheat plant > having no wheat
wheatless1868
1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cxxxvii. 167 I opened many a..book,..But all the leaves were wheatless straws.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 336 The laity look on while theologians thrash their wheatless straw.
1917 Times 30 May 7/4 What will be the attitude of those portions of Greece..if they remain wheatless.
Draft additions December 2018
wheat beer n. a type of beer, typically pale in colour, made with a high proportion of (malted) wheat in relation to malted barley, and often characterized as light and refreshing, with flavours of banana, clove, or citrus.Beer can be made with wheat alone, but this is rare.
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1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. 362 Brown beer and metheglin are more in use than..busa or white unhopped wheat-beer.
1884 Sci. Amer. 29 Nov. 345/2 In the sixteenth century wheat beer was introduced into Munich..and threatened in the beginning to supersede the brown beer.
1995 S. Beaumont Taste for Beer 37 Although they are top-fermented like ales, wheat beers really do belong in a separate and distinct class all their own.
2018 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Stella section) 61 Everyone should try Belgian wheat beer with mussels at least once or twice in their lives.
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wheatv.
/wiːt/, U.S. /(h)wit/ transitive. To crop with wheat.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with grain
corn1652
wheat1847
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 61 The land must not be wheated oftener than the soil will admit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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