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oat·en

 (ōt′n)
adj.
Of, made of, or containing oats, oatmeal, or oat straw: oaten fodder.
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oaten

(ˈəʊtən)
adj
made of oats or oat straw
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oat•en

(ˈoʊt n)

adj.
of or pertaining to oats, oatmeal, or oat straw.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.oaten - of or related to or derived from oats; "oaten bread"
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Translations

oaten

[ˈəʊtn] ADJde avena
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

oaten

adj attr
(of oat straw) → aus Haferstroh
(of oatmeal) → Hafer(mehl)-, aus Hafermehl
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Anyhow, whatever particular kind of an earl a belted earl may be, he is, I assert, get-overable by flattery; just as every other human being is, from a duchess to a cat's-meat man, from a plow boy to a poet--and the poet far easier than the plowboy, for butter sinks better into wheaten bread than into oaten cakes.
In the Faery Queen Spenser has, as he says, changed his "oaten reed" for "trumpets stern," and sings no longer now of shepherds and their loves, but of "knights and ladies gentle deeds" of "fierce wars and faithful loves."
The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.
When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.
Three suits of Lincoln green shalt thou have a year, besides forty marks in fee; thou shalt share all with us and lead a right merry life in the greenwood; for cares have we not, and misfortune cometh not upon us within the sweet shades of Sherwood, where we shoot the dun deer and feed upon venison and sweet oaten cakes, and curds and honey.
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