mangcorn

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English mengen (to mix). See mingle, and corn.

Noun

mangcorn

  1. (obsolete) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain.
    • 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, issues 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

  • mangcorn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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