Word.ws English Dictionary

oat-burners

oat-burners is the plural of oat-burner.

Meaning of oat-burner

Noun

oat-burner (plural oat-burners)

  1. A horse.
    • He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.2008, Sharon Brondos, White Lightning, →ISBN, page 60
  2. A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.
    • Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead.1994, Guy LeBow, Watch Your Cleavage, Check Your Zipper!, →ISBN, page 3

Questions about oat-burners

What is oat-burners the plural of?
Oat-burners is the plural of oat-burner.

Words near oat-burners in the dictionary

  1. oat opera
  2. oat operas
  3. oat soda
  4. oat sodas
  5. oat-burner
  6. oat-burners
  7. oat-like
  8. oat-opera
  9. oat-operas
  10. oatbread
  11. oatcake

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oat-burners (page history and authors); oat-burner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oat-burners.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oat-burners. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.