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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A flattened cake of baked oatmeal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cake made of the meal of oats. It is generally very thin and brittle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of many flat biscuits, or cakes made from oatmeal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A cake made of oatmeal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal

Examples

  • “There I was hospitably entertained, and a supper of milk and goat's flesh with a kind of oatcake was set before me, of which I ate heartily.”

    Erewhon; or, Over the range

  • “All descriptions of linen, except the "oatcake" and "sailcloth," can be embroidered in the hand.”

    Handbook of Embroidery

  • “a supper of milk and goat's flesh with a kind of oatcake was set before me, of which I ate heartily.”

    Erewhon

  • “There I was hospitably entertained, and a supper of milk and goat’s flesh with a kind of oatcake was set before me, of which I ate heartily.”

    Erewhon

  • “Quite different from its crisp Scottish cousin, the Staffordshire oatcake is more like a dense pancake made from batter containing three types of flour and, of course, oats.”

    The Guardian: Insider's guide to the best British food, and where to find it

  • “The MidlandsStaffordshire oatcakesA true regional British treasure, the oatcake, or "oat flannel" as it is sometimes called, fuelled generations of workers in the Potteries.”

    The Guardian: Insider's guide to the best British food, and where to find it

  • “The bosses = those who were last on the frontline in 1900 and oatcake.”

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  • “Jenny, blooming in blue silk, and Mrs. Crook, starched in white linen, flitted back and forth between kitchen and parlor, overseeing the two maidservants, who staggered to and fro under enormous platters of oatcake, fruitcake, "crumbly," and other sweets.”

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  • “May I never taste oatcake or whisky again!' said Lachlan impetuously, 'but I wish to see the beast, if there's one in it, and, the sooner the better.”

    Archive 2007-12-01

  • “In Wales and Scotland, an oatcake was divided into equal parts and one piece blackened.”

    Archive 2009-05-01

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