mangcorn
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English, from Old English mengen (“to mix”). See mingle, and corn.
Noun edit
mangcorn
- (obsolete) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain, sown together as one crop.
- 1910, Henrik Marczali, Hungary in the Eighteenth Century, page 55:
- Even in other parts of the country mangcorn, and rye, not pure wheat, were the chief products.
- 1918, Commerce Reports of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 1183:
- Mangcorn (mixed grains, especially wheat and rye) in 1916, 438,128 tons; in 1917, 395.988 tons; […]
- 1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39:
- Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.
References edit
- “mangcorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.