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[trans. of Cdn F avoine in this sense]

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

See wild rice 1963 quote.

See: wild rice

Quotations

1778

. . . it abounds with excellent fish and wild fowl; and oats, rice and cranberries in the swamps.

1804

Richard brought a parcel of dried Meat, today, the Indians had not yet made any Oats.

1931

Wild rice . . . was usually called "oats" by the traders, and was bought by the sack from squaws, who gathered it in the lakes and marshes in the late summer.