Definitions for OAT

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OAT oat

Spelling: [oht]

IPA: /oʊt/

Oat is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in OAT (aot).

Definitions for OAT

noun

1. a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
2. Usually, oats. (used with a singular or plural verb) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals.
3. any of several plants of the same genus, as the wild oat.
4. Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.

Idioms

1. feel one's oats, Informal. to feel frisky or lively. to be aware of and use one's importance or power.
2. sow one's wild oats. wild oat (def 3).

Origin of OAT

before 900; Middle English ote, Old English āte

Examples for OAT

The heat, when the oat is in the milk stage, usually is too great.

Where wheat is unprofitable, the oat crop is used in its stead.

The only way I ever feel like pettin' that oat barrel,' I says, 'is with a rope's end.'

They keep their cows in the house in winter, feeding them upon hay and oat straw.

The oat crop has increased the most rapidly of any since 1880.

We'd better get the money for the oat bill while it's in sight.

In Bohemia the oat crop is, unfortunately, very bad this season.

Then take them oat, drain, and cool them, and put them into a small tub.

How does removal of the oat hull affect the composition of the product?

Give the characteristics and composition of oat preparations.