| 单词 | grey meal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey meal grey meal n. Scottish (a) mixed meal and dust from the floor of a mill (now historical and rare); †(b) barley meal (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > siftings or refuse mill dust1354 roughc1460 overchaving1607 sid1673 grey meal?1771 shag1822 slurry1825 slush1843 slutch1851 ?1771 Whole Proc. Jocky & Maggy v. 27 Your groat meal, and gray meal, sand dust and seeds. 1841 A. Crawfurd in Laird of Logan 498 John Braedine, in Kilbirnie, was called before the Presbytery of Irvine, 1647, for calling his minister's doctrines Dust and Gray Meil. a1877 Shepherd's Dochter in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. v. 462/2 For mony a time thou 's filled my pock Wi baith oat-meal and grey. 1923 P. Worth Light from Beyond 274 The bread I proffer thee is of homely stuff—Of grey meal, which wert gristed by Mine ain hand. 1990 T. C. Smout & S. Wood Sc. Voices i. 5 In times of scarcity recourse was had to inferior kinds, which are now happily forgotten—viz., grey meal—i.e., a species compounded of oatmeal and mill-dust. < as lemmas |
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