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▪ I. graddan, n. Sc.|ˈgrædən|
Also 7 gradȝan, 8 graddon, graydon, 9 gradan, gradden.
[Gaelic and Irish gradan, f. gread-aim I scorch.]
Parched grain (see quot. 1854, and quots. s.v. graddan v.). Also attrib., as graddan-bread, graddan-cake, graddan-meal.
a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems liv. 5 Insteid of grene gynger ȝe eit gray gradȝan. 1703M. Martin Descrip. West. Isl. 204 The ancient way of dressing Corn, which is yet us'd in several Isles, is call'd Graddan. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. 170 This Oatmeal is called graydon meal. c1750Maxwell Let. in Smiles Engineers (1861) II. 97 The tenants in general lived..on..groats, milk, graddon ground in querns turned by the hand [etc.]. 1790Pennant Tour Scotl. (ed. 5) 323 The lasses are merry at their work of grinding the Graddan. 1806R. Jamieson Quern Lilt in Sir G. Douglas Scott. Minor Poets (1891) 117 Grind the gradden—grind it. 1808J. Walker Econom. Hist. Hebrides II. 368 To make gradan bread. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxv, The graddan cake will keep her white teeth in order. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. v. (1857) 104 Gradden-meal, i.e. grain dried in a pot over the fire, and then coarsely ground in a hand-mill.
▪ II. graddan, v. Sc.|ˈgrædən|
[f. graddan n.]
trans. To parch (grain) in the husk (see quots.). Hence ˈgraddaned ppl. a., ˈgraddaning vbl. n.
1773Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 9 Sept., There were oat-cakes, made of what is called graddaned meal, that is, meal made of grain separated from the husks, and toasted by fire. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 280 The corn is graddan'd, or burnt out of the ear, instead of being thrashed. Ibid. 281 Graddened corn was the parched corn of Holy Writ. 1864J. B. Greenshields Ann. Lesmahagow 34 The process of graddening was conducted thus. |