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Breadstuff

Breadstuff \Bread"stuff\, n. Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

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breadstuff

n. 1 flour, grain (such as wheat or oats), or any cereal, such as would be used in the making of bread 2 bread of any sort

WordNet
breadstuff
  1. n. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread, staff of life]

  2. flour or meal or grain used in baking bread

Usage examples of "breadstuff".

As I have before said, 60,000,000 bushels of breadstuff were thus pushed through Buffalo in the open months of the year 1861.

His folk fed the stock they kept over winter on hay, not having breadstuff to spare.

Acorns were their main staple article of breadstuff, and they are still used by the present generation whenever they can be obtained.

The result has been the passage of 60,000,000 bushels of breadstuffs through that gate in one year!

They look out on the wide lake which is now the highway for breadstuffs, and the merchant, as he shaves at his window, sees his rapid ventures as they pass away, one after the other, toward the East.

Carey does not take into account the fact that the total amount of breadstuffs exported from any country must be an exceedingly small fraction of the whole amount taken from the soil, and scarcely appreciable as a source of manure, even if it were practically utilized in that way.

It is true that our exports of wheat and Indian corn rose in the three years following the enactment of the Morrill tariff, from an average of eight million bushels to an average of forty-six million bushels, but this is contrary to the theory that high tariffs tend to keep breadstuffs at home, and low ones to send them abroad.

If ye will among ye provide us with a cart, filling it with such breadstuffs and greens as ye may, with a dozen bullocks as well, we shall not only screen ye in this matter, but I shall promise payment at fair market rates if ye will come to the Protestant camp for the money.

I was seated along the side of the road, leaning against a tree, devouring some simple breadstuffs I had in my pack.

Take from agriculture six hundred thousand men, women, and children, and you will at once give a market for more breadstuffs than all Europe now furnishes.

You boys will have to carry the breadstuffs up into the loft of the storehouse, and the coffee and sugar too, and while I think of it, you had better take one sack out to the mill, Helgi.

Already a feast was being laid out: a keg of liqueur, many delicious-smelling breadstuffs, fresh vegetables, pots of roasted potatoes and buckets of milk and honey and dew.

But last Wednesday morning, while perusing breadstuffs at the corner deli, her eyes locked on the muffin with the cranberry smile.

At Wilmington there has always been a strong manufacturing interest, beginning with the famous colonial flour mills at the falls of the Brandywine, and the breadstuffs industry at Newport on the Christina.

At the accession of the Queen protective duties or taxes existed in Great Britain on all imported breadstuffs and on many manufactured articles.