† secourgeonn.
Obsolete. rare.
= amelcorn n., an inferior variety of wheat.
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spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xx. 710 You may make meale likewise of other corne then of wheate, as of barley, rie, meslin, secourgeon.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xx. 714 Breade made of Secourgion.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 56/2 Secourgion is a lean, wrinkled and starved Corn, something like unto Barley.
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