 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...this is performed two ways ; firft, by cutting off the ears, and drying them in a kiln, then fetting fire to them on a floor, and picking out the grains,...coal. The other method is more expeditious, for the 321 322 QuBRN. SIEVE. whole fheaf is burnt, without the trouble of cutting off the ears : a moft ruinous... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 1102 pages
...this is performed two ways ; firft, by cutting off the ears, and drying them in a kiln, then fetting fire to them on a floor, and picking out the grains,...The other method is more expeditious, for the whole fheaf is burnt, v.ithout the trouble of cutting off the ears : a moft ruinous practice, as it deftroys... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 970 pages
...this is performed two ways ; firft, by cutting off the ears, and drying them in a kiln, then fetting fire to them on a floor, and picking out the grains,...rendered as black as coal. The other method is more expeditions, for the whole Ihcafis burnt, \vithoutthetrouble of cutting off the ears : a moft ruinous... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...of being threshed : this is performed two ways ; first, by cutting off the ears, and dryingthem ina kiln, then setting fire to them on a floor, and picking...both thatch and manure, and on that account has been wiselyprohibited in some of the islands. Graddaned corn was the " parched corn" of Holy Writ. Thus... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...thrashed : this is performed two ways ; first, by cutting off the ears, and drying them in a kiln, tiien setting fire to them on a floor, and picking out the grains, by this operation rendered as black as a coal. The other method is more expeditious, for the whole sheaf is burnt, without the trouble of... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1845 - 494 pages
...(in Egypt). — LANE'S Modern Egyptians, vol. ip 242. Isle of Ronin. — " The corn is graddanned, or burnt out of the ear, instead of being thrashed...prohibited in some of the islands. Graddanned corn is the ' parched corn ' of holy writ." — See CALMET. Travelling upon the Hebron road towards Cannel,... | |
 | 1867 - 596 pages
...ways — first, by cutting oif mo ears, and drying them in a kiln, then setting fire to them on the floor, and picking out the grains, by this operation...burnt, without the trouble of cutting off the ears I must observe that the island lasses are as merry at the work of grinding the graddeu— the «адао?... | |
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... or burnt out of the ear, instead of being thrashed: this is performed two ways; first, by cutting off the ears, and drying them in a kiln, then setting fire to them on a floor, and picking out the grains, by this operation rendered as black as coal. 