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Oat   /oʊt/   Listen
noun
Oat  n.  (pl. oats)  
1.
(Bot.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
2.
A musical pipe made of oat straw. (Obs.)
Animated oats or Animal oats (Bot.), A grass (Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion.
Oat fowl (Zool.), the snow bunting; so called from its feeding on oats. (Prov. Eng.)
Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, Danthonia sericea, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in parts of the United States.
To feel one's oats,
(a)
to be conceited or self-important. (Slang)
(b)
to feel lively and energetic.
To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
Wild oats (Bot.), a grass (Avena fatua) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats.






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"Oat" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first time of my seeing the true Moccoletti; last year, in one of the first triumphs of democracy, they did not blow oat the lights, thus turning it into an illumination. The effect of the swarms of lights, little and large, thus in motion all over the fronts of the houses, and up and down the Corso, was exceedingly pretty and fairy-like; ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... work to tunnel and trench out to the barn where the animals were, but finally it was done. They were found to be all right with two exceptions. A horse had died from getting into the oat bin and eating too much, and a cow was frozen, having gotten away from the rest, and broken into a ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope

... said the timekeeper. A sigh of indrawn breaths ran round the circle, and then tense silence. Outside the trench they were in the roar of the guns boomed unceasingly, the shells whooped and screwed overhead, and from oat in front came the crackle and roar of rifle-fire; and yet, despite the noise, the trench appeared still and silent. Macalister noted that, as he had noted it over ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... brightly polished. Over the middle of the room, suspended by cords from the ceiling, was a framework of wood crossed all over by strings, on which lay, ready for consumption, a good store of crisp-looking oat-cakes; while, to give still further life to the whole, a bird-cage hung near, in which there dwelt ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... these my Muse would fain withdraw: To Taff's still Valley be my footsteps led, Where happy Unions 'neath the shield of Law Heave bricks bisected at the Blackleg's head: In those calm shades my desultory oat Of Taxed Land Values shall contented trill, Of Man ennobled by a Single Vote,— In short, I'll sing of anything you will, Except of thee ...
— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley


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