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  • 71Akess — This long established surname is topographical and Olde English pre 7th century, at least in its origins. It derives from residence by an area of land made suitable for agriculture. The development is from the word aecer , and this describes a… …

    Surnames reference

  • 72Akers — This long established surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a topographical name from residence by a plot of arable land, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century aecer , cognate with the Old High German acdkar , ploughed field,… …

    Surnames reference

  • 73Akker — This long established surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a topographical name from residence by a plot of arable land, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century aecer , cognate with the Old High German acdkar , ploughed field,… …

    Surnames reference

  • 74Adenanthera Pavonina — L. Redhead (E); Coralitos (S) . The leaves are served as famine food. Macerated leaves are used in gout and rheumatism; husked seeds are said to have an agreeable taste. Powdered seeds hasten suppuration of boils and cure prickly heat. The bark… …

    EthnoBotanical Dictionary

  • 75grit — [OE] Etymologically, grit is ‘something produced by pounding’. Prehistoric Indo European *ghrēu denoted ‘rub, pound, crush’, and from it came Germanic *greutam ‘tiny particles of crushed or pounded rock’, hence ‘sand, gravel’. Its modern… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 76husk — (n.) late 14c., huske dry, outer skin of certain fruits and seeds, of unknown origin, perhaps from M.Du. huuskyn little house, core of fruit, case, dim. of huus house, or from an equivalent formation in English (see HOUSE (Cf. house)). As a verb …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 77pod — {{11}}pod (1) seed of beans, 1680s, of uncertain origin; found earlier in podware seed of legumes, seed grain (mid 15c.), which had a parallel form codware husked or seeded plants (late 14c.), related to cod husk of seeded plants, which was in… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 78hulled — adj. husked; deprived of hulls; peeled, pard, shelled hÊŒl n. body of a ship; shell, outer covering (of a seed, fruit, etc.) v. remove the hull, remove the outer covering of seeds or fruit …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 79unhulled — adj. not husked; not deprived of hulls; not peeled, unshelled …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 80rolled oats — plural noun oats that have been husked and crushed …

    English new terms dictionary