单词 | pillez |
释义 | pillezn. English regional (Cornwall). Now historical. Naked oats, Avena nuda. Also (rare): naked barley. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats > oat plants pilcorn1283 aveyn1475 pillotes1551 pilled oats1578 naked oat1597 groats1669 pillez1764 oat1790 Scotch grey1798 turnip-oatsc1800 1764 Eng. Illustr. I. 90 In crofts farther down the hill, this black soil serves as wintering for horned cattle, and bears good potatoes, rye, and pillas, the avena nuda of Ray. 1814 W. H. Marshall Rev. Rep. Board Agric. V. 542 One gallon of pilez with 20 gallons of potatoes, makes a rich fattening mess for pigs. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 31/2 Amongst the varieties of grain raised in Cornwall, we may notice the naked barley, which is there called Pillez. 1846 ‘J. Treenoodle’ Specimens Cornish Provinc. Dial. 45 So I hove down some pellas amongst em to eat. 1895 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 6 To pellas I sowed a brave splat [sc. a plot of ground]. 1953 Geogr. Jrnl. 119 62 The more distant fields were more casually cultivated, ‘pillez’ (a type of oat known in fourteenth-century England as ‘Pilcorn’) being grown as a last crop before the land was allowed to revert to waste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1764 |
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