oat

Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.uncountable

• The oat stalks made good straw.
• The main forms of oat are meal and bran.

Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.countable

• The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.

The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.countableuncountableusually

• […]I could munch your good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.

A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.countableuncountable

The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.countableuncountable

• Few of them care an oat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!

Alternative letter-case form of OAT.alt-of