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1526 Grete Herball sig. Hiii/2 Yf they be soden with rape rotes.

1533 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe ii. ix Rape rootes..if they be not perfectly concoct in the stomake, they do make crude or raw iuice in the veynes.

1677 J. Webster Displaying Supposed Witchcraft xii. 254 The Country Woman in cutting the rape root, had left her Knife amongst the Pot-Herbs.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Apr. xi. 113 This Seed ought to be sown in the same [month], that the Rape-roots may enjoy good Part of the Summer's hot Season.

1866 J. P. Collier Bibliogr. & Crit. Acct. Rarest Bks. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) III. 152 A rape-root is injudiciously substituted for a turnip.

1911 Times 7 Aug. 4/3 Anything which bridges over the winter will claim attention this season, and hence many farmers will be reluctant to plough up cale and rape roots.

2003 Polish News Bull. (Nexis) 29 July Farmers may harvest about 3m tonnes less corn than last year..and only 650,000 tonnes of rape root.