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graddan

graddan verb: to prepare corn for the quern by setting fire to the ears and beating off the grain at the point when the husk is fully burnt.

Verb

graddan (third-person singular simple present graddans, present participle graddaning, simple past and past participle graddaned)

  1. (Scotland, historical) To prepare corn for the quern by setting fire to the ears and beating off the grain at the point when the husk is fully burnt.

Forms of graddan

third-person singular presentgraddans
present participlegraddaning
past participlegraddaned
pastgraddaned

Questions about graddan

What does graddan mean?
Graddan means to prepare corn for the quern by setting fire to the ears and beating off the grain at the point when the husk is fully burnt.
What part of speech is graddan?
Graddan is a verb.
What is the past tense of graddan?
The past tense of graddan is graddaned.

Words near graddan in the dictionary

  1. gradations
  2. gradative
  3. gradatively
  4. gradatories
  5. gradatory
  6. graddan
  7. graddaned
  8. graddaning
  9. graddans
  10. Graddon
  11. Graddons

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