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Oat

//əʊt// noun, prep_phrase

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Noun
  1. 1
    Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa. uncountable

    "The oat stalks made good straw."

  2. 2
    seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’) wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena. countable

    "The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats."

  4. 4
    annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: ‘oats’) wordnet
  5. 5
    The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed. countable, uncountable, usually

    "[…]I could munch your good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow."

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  1. 6
    A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    The tiniest amount; a whit or jot. countable, uncountable

    "Few of them care an oat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!"

Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of OAT. alt-of
  2. 2
    Initialism of of all time. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”). Cognates * Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), West Frisian oat (“wild oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“wild oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat (“oat”), obsolete Luxembourgish Otz (“oat”). Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old Norse eitill (“nodule”) * Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)

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