Vocabulary Word
Word: oatmeal
Definition: crushed oats used for making porridge
Definition: crushed oats used for making porridge
Sentences Containing 'oatmeal'
Oatmeal, indeed, supplies the common people in Scotland with the greatest and the best part of their food, which is, in general, much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.
When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling.
It is not more than a century ago, that in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, butcher's meat was as cheap or cheaper than even bread made of oatmeal The Union opened the market of England to the Highland cattle.
The common people in Scotland, who are fed with oatmeal, are in general neither so strong nor so handsome as the same rank of people in England, who are fed with wheaten bread.
It has lately been shown that bees, instead of searching for pollen, will gladly use a very different substance, namely, oatmeal.
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