Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavings
Literary usage of Cavings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The corn, chaff and cavings fall on to a reciprocating board or " upper shoe ...
The upper shoe posses the cavings, &c., over the end into a " lower shoe," ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1862)
"Corn, Head 42 7 „ Tail 009 4 2 10 Straw 52 1 cavings 00 21 Chaff 01 2 Produce
per acre :— Corn (head and tail) 35 bushels 15 Ibs. Straw (including ..."
3. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"cavings. ' Take a large handful of oats in their straw, ... [I take cavings to
be the broken ears and bits of straw which break off in threshing corn. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"cavings. ' Take a large handful of oats in their straw, ... [I take cavings to
be the broken ears and bits of straw which break off in threshing corn. ..."
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