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oaten
Part of Speech: Noun
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Examples of usage:
- " A pretty way of travelling, to be sure, it will be," continued she, " to go bumping behind a dirty chaise- driver; but better to be shook to a jelly altogether than stay amongst such a set of Oaten- toads." - "Marriage", Susan Edmonstone Ferrier.
- Before the end of the 17th century the squeak of the oaten pipe had become a burden, and the only piece of the kind which it is easy to read without some impatience is Milton's wonderful Lycidas. - "Brief History of English and American Literature", Henry A. Beers.
- The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing- boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him. - "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus", Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley.