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mangcorn en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English menġan (“to mix”). See mingle, and corn.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain, sown together as one crop.
   • 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. 1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39:
   • Even in other parts of the country mangcorn, and rye, not pure wheat, were the chief products. 1910, Henrik Marczali, Hungary in the Eighteenth Century, page 55:
   • Mangcorn (mixed grains, especially wheat and rye) in 1916, 438,128 tons; in 1917, 395.988 tons; […] 1918, Commerce Reports of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 1183

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