单词 | small rice |
释义 | > as lemmassmall rice small rice n. chiefly U.S. regional (now historical) rice composed of broken grains, and hence considered low-grade; cf. sense B. 9a(c). ΚΠ 1743 London Gaz. 18 Oct. 1/1 For the support of such poor Protestants and their Families for one Year, three hundred weight of beef.., two hundred weight of small rice, and one bushel salt. 1786 E. Rutledge Let. 14 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1954) X. 465 It is then winnowed..to separate the Flour and broken, or what we call the Small Rice, from the whole, which is packed in Barrels, and exported. 1819 Monthly Mag. Nov. 343/2 The most elevated and finest part of the screen lets out the dust, or what is generally called the flour; the next the broken or small rice, and the third or last division the shelled whole rice. 1957 J. R. Alden South in Revol., 1763–89 ii. 21 In these processes much of the rice was broken. By sieves the ‘small rice’ was separated for the use of the Negroes and animals. 1992 K. Hess Carolina Rice Kitchen (1998) i. 19 This brittleness caused considerable loss, because the broken grades, or ‘small’ rice, had to be sold at lower prices. < as lemmas |
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