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See also:oát,oắt,andoặt

English

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unripe cultivatedoats
rolledoat seeds ready to be cooked asoatmeal

Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishote, fromOld Englishāte, fromProto-Germanic*aitǭ(“swelling; gland; nodule”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₁eyd-(“to swell”). See Englishatter.

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Noun

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oat (countable anduncountable,pluraloats)

  2. (uncountable) Widely cultivatedcerealgrass, typicallyAvena sativa.
    Theoat stalks made good straw.
    The main forms ofoat are meal and bran.
    World trade inoat is increasing.
  3. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genusAvena.
    The wild redoat is thought to be the ancestor of modern foodoats.
  4. (usually as plural) Theseeds of the oat, agrain,harvested as afood crop and for animalfeed.
    • 1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson,Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing,→ISBN,page 2:
      The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively fewoats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything butoats and milk, except for an occasional potato.
  5. A simplemusicalpipe made of oat-straw.
  6. The tiniest amount; awhit orjot.
    • 1994, Susan King,The Black Thorne's Rose, page21:
      Few of them care anoat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!

Derived terms

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Translations

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widely cultivated cereal grass
seeds of the oat—seeoats
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Translations to be checked‌: "the seeds of the oat"

See also

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References

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  • (tiniest amount):1873, John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary

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Finnish

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Noun

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oat

  1. nominativeplural ofoka

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