单词 | bread corn |
释义 | bread cornn. 1. Grain used or suitable for making bread. Now historical.In early use often contrasted with drink-corn n., or malt corn n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > corn for bread bread corna1387 bread meal1556 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 405 Wormes..fil doun from hevene and ete þe brede corne [L. annonam]. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 58 A Busschel of Bred corn he bringeþ þer-Inne. 1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1644 There lacketh, of bread corn, 1 peck. In surplusage, of drink corn, 27 qrs. 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 5v Breade Corne, and Malte corne ynough besides, reared all together vpon the same lande. 1713 T. Rands Pax in Crumena 126 Laborous Oxen Plow the Fertile Fields, Which does produce Bread-Corn, and Barley yields. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 472 Rye..the bread-corn of Germany and Russia. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. (1991) vii. 237 Oats and barley (a six-rowed variety known as bere) were..the main breadcorn of lowland Scotland. 2012 Econ. Hist. Rev. 65 229 The coastal trade provided just 4-8 per cent of London's bread corn, and 9-14 per cent of the city's requirement for brewing grains. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > corn for grinding gristc1430 bread corn1889 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Bread-corn, corn to be ground into bread-meal..not to be used for finer purposes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1387 |
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