oaten

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Their food is potatoes and milk; but they have a considerable assistance from fish, particularly herrings; part of the year they have also barley, oaten, and rye bread.

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  1. adjective Of, made of, or containing oats, oatmeal, or oat straw: oaten fodder.

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  • Their food is potatoes and milk; but they have a considerable assistance from fish, particularly herrings; part of the year they have also barley, oaten, and rye bread. —  A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
  • Next Eumæus fetched a meal for him--oaten cakes and swine flesh and wine. —  The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
  • Without recurring to details, I recognized the tone and atmosphere of that noble poem, which was to me, at a feverish period in my life, as pure waters, free breezes, and cold blue sky, bringing a sense of eternity that gave an aspect of composure to the rudest volcanic wrecks of time We dined at a farm-house of the vale, with its stone floors, old carved cabinet (the pride of a house of this sort), and ready provision of oaten cakes. —  At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
  • Here we observed stunted box and bloodwood trees, and a variety of grasses, among which I observed barley, oaten, kangaroo, and triodia; at 12.23 made one mile north by east; at 12.53 made one mile and a half north by east to the waterhole I named Kenellan, where there were the same blacks I had seen before. —  Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
  • I think I swooned, or slept at that time, for thereafter I can remember no more until the day was almost spent, and a man came and opened the low door that he might bring us food--oaten loaves, and ale in a great jug. —  A Sea Queen's Sailing
 

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  1. from Middle English oten, from Anglo-Saxon *āten, of the oat, from āte, oat: see oat.
 

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