“bread、corn”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bread-corn

释义

bread-corn|ˈbrɛdkɔːn|
1. Corn or grain for making bread. An expression that comes down from a time when ‘corn’ had a much wider sense than it now bears in England or America; cf. peppercorn, and in OE. senepes corn mustard seed.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 58 A Busschel of Bred corn he bringeþ þer-Inne.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxiv, Many medle benes with bred corne, to make þe bred þe more heuy.1610P. Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 219 The inhabitants..use in steed of bread-corne, dried fish.1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 251/2 A great quantity of bread-corn was brought into Rome.1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 477 Rye..the bread-corn of Germany and Russia.1857E. Acton Eng. Bread-bk. iv. 53.
2. spec. ‘Corn to be ground into bread-meal, not to be used for finer purposes’ (N. Linc. Gloss.).
attrib.1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. ii. (1682) 28, I made Paste of Bread-corn-meal, without Leaven.

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