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oaten
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "oaten":- Presently comes an attack but little disguised on Philips: Thou will not find my shepherdesses idly piping on oaten reeds, but milking the kine, tying up the sheaves, or if the hogs are astray driving them to their styes. - "Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)", Lewis Melville.
- Supper consisted of boiled skate- a fish Cyril had never tasted before- oaten bread, and beer. - "When London Burned", G. A. Henty.
- During my sojourn in the dingle, my food had been of the simplest and most unsatisfying description, by no means calculated to support the exertion which the labour I had been engaged upon required; it had consisted of coarse oaten cakes and hard cheese, and for beverage I had been indebted to a neighbouring pit, in which, in the heat of the day, I frequently saw, not golden or silver fish, but frogs and eftes swimming about. - "Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest", George Borrow.