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Wheat

noun

Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.

Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour. Synonym: wheat berry.

A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white. Synonyms: pale yellow, straw.

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"Wheat" Quotes from Famous Books

... storehouse of the temple and pointed out to her a great heap of grain—wheat, barley, poppy ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester

... Farrenden girl," replied Mr. Cuthbert, whose business it was to know everybody. "Chicago wheat. She looks like Ceres, doesn't she? Quite becoming to Reggie's dark beauty. She was sixteen, they tell me, when the old gentleman emerged from the pit, and they packed her off to a convent by the next steamer. Reggie may have the blissful experience ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... procession then passed along the wide main street of the city, through splendid arches of wheat, to the City Hall, where Mayor Arbuthnot presented the address to the Duke. Archbishop Machray then presented an address from the Church of England in Rupert's Land, expressive of welcome and attachment to the Throne and Empire. Archbishop Langevin, on behalf of the Catholics of Manitoba ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... hadn't a dog's chance of putting Bill's lights out. He hadn't, true. Say, Kate, Bill was just like—like a whirlwind. Same as Charlie said. He was so quick I hardly know how it happened. Bill dropped Pete like a—a sack of wheat. He—he was on him like a tiger. Then I was just worse scared than ever, and—and began ...

— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum

... half a million to know what those two old fiends are concocting," said John P. Buller, the great wheat operator; and he meant it; which goes to show that a man does not really know what he wants, and would be very dissatisfied if ...

— Revenge! • by Robert Barr

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