Read full poem →How on his pittance of soil he lived, and raised potatoes,
Barley, and oats, in the bothie where lived his father before him;
Yet was smith by trade, and had travelled making horse-shoes
Dictionary Entry
Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
In a Sentence
“The main forms of oat are meal and bran.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. oatsoats wildoats quakeroats rolled
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Poetry examples for “oats”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The orchard here is near and home-like.
The oats in the valley run a mile.
Between are the green and marching potato vines.
Read full poem →FOR A FOOL 60
FOR ONE WHO GAYLY SOWED HIS OATS 61
FOR A SKEPTIC 62
Read full poem →Here's little save the river scene
And grounds of oats in rustling green
And crowded growth of wheat and beans,
Read full poem →Chequer my tablet with their quivering shades.
On one side is a field of drooping oats,
Through which the poppies show their scarlet coats;
Read full poem →Chequer my tablet with their, quivering shades.
On one side is a field of drooping oats,
Through which the poppies show their scarlet coats
Read full poem →“LER 120 Ce 2 PRR RR Me Re a Binh alien are imeem Eg A T, 52
MARIN EM ere Oats ieee ee ce Rk dd Sate ocak a uapBipiie' ne vob = BE 57
RMR RE LENE EEGs) les foe ers Sip ce eh vn do uisl dies Voss MeV owe aus ou earn 79
Read full poem →_On the road to nowhere
What wild oats did you sow
When you left your father's house
Read full poem →The Amphibian was now cook. He gave each man a soup-plate heaped with
oat-meal. If it had been oats, it would have been food for so many
horses. Had the Frog been up since four-thirty preparing this?