Middle English Dictionary Entry
ōten adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ōten adj. Also oton. |
| Etymology | From ōte n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Consisting of oats or oatmeal; ~ cake, a cake of oaten bread; ~ mele, ~ grotes, hulled, coarsely ground, or crushed oats; oatmeal; ~ red, a pipe made of the stalk of an oat.
Associated quotations
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.94 : For to make a Colys. Nym hennys..nym the lyre..and bray it with otyn grotys.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.11 : Who wolde schoute to skorne, ȝif I pipe wiþ an otene reed [L avena].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)77 : Pro tumore vel dolore tibiarum..Take otenmele & cow mylke, and make grewel..and let hem boyle al to gedyr, tille hit be þikke as þe plasture may go al aboute þe sore.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)156 : Lete þe seke..ete no mete bote bred ant potage, ymad of welcarscen & of whyte wyne & oten mele.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)198 : Tak..clene hay..þen hakke hyt smale as oten mele & do hyt in to þe vryne.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.47 : For gruel of fors. Fyrst take porke, wele þou hit sethe With otene grotes þat ben so smethe.
- a1475 PPl.A(1) (Hrl 875)7.179 : Oten [Trin-C: Hungir hem helide wiþ an hot cake].
- a1525(?1466) Cov.Leet Bk.334 : The wardens shall make a stryke, halfe stryke..the mesurs to be selyd & delyueryd to the sellers of oton-meele by the comyn seriant with-owt eny money therfor to be payd.