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Definition of Oatcakes
1. oatcake [n] - See also: oatcake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oatcakes
Literary usage of Oatcakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Independent Review (1906)
"Sometimes oatmeal porridge with tea and oatcakes; more often white bread with
treacle, syrup, ... oatcakes or white bread, with milk or tea ; seldom cheese. ..."
2. The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders (1900)
"SCOTCH oatcakes.—No firm of biscuit manufacturers enjoys such a world-wide
celebrity, or as large a share of the public favour, as Messrs. ..."
3. Journal by New York Microscopical Society, Chartered Insurance Institute, World Resources Institute, Institute of Transport (London, England) (1902)
"Some firms have taken up this trade, and, making a speciality of it, confine
themselves to oatcakes alone ; but, so far as I can learn, they are few in ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"BAK-BREDE, sb. a. broad thin board, with a handle, used in ' riddling out the
dough of oatcakes before .they are put on the spittle, and turned down on the ..."
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