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wheatmeal

wheatmeal noun: meal (flour or flourlike product) derived from whole grains of wheat, often not finely ground.

Noun

wheatmeal (countable and uncountable, plural wheatmeals)

  1. Meal (flour or flourlike product) derived from whole grains of wheat, often not finely ground.
    • Bruing of beere. Hauing therefore groond eight bushels of good malt vpon our querne, where the toll is saued, she addeth vnto it halfe a bushell of wheat meale, and so much of otes small groond, and so tempereth or mixeth them with the malt, that you cannot easilie discerne the one from the other...1586, Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison, Holinshed's Chronicles, Volume I, Book II, Chapter VI, "Of the Food and Diet of the English" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42506/42506-h/42506-h.htm
    • The bran of wheat-meal steeped in sharp vinegar, and then bound in a linen cloth, and rubbed on those places that have the scurf, morphew, scabs, or leprosy, will take them away, the body being first well purged and prepared.1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal in Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal, London: C. Stalker, 1790, p. 385, https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000789682

Forms of wheatmeal

pluralwheatmeals

Origin of wheatmeal

From wheat + meal.

Questions about wheatmeal

What does wheatmeal mean?
Wheatmeal means meal (flour or flourlike product) derived from whole grains of wheat, often not finely ground.
What part of speech is wheatmeal?
Wheatmeal is a noun.
What is the plural of wheatmeal?
The plural of wheatmeal is wheatmeals.

Words near wheatmeal in the dictionary

  1. Wheatley elm
  2. Wheatley elms
  3. wheatleyite
  4. Wheatleys
  5. wheatlike
  6. wheatmeal
  7. wheatmeals
  8. wheaton
  9. Wheaton Aston
  10. wheatons
  11. wheatpaste

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