A British dialect term for the naked oat or pilcorn oat (Avena nuda) — a variety of oat that threshes free of its husk, unlike common oats. The term was used in agricultural and milling contexts in earlier centuries. Now of historical and botanical interest only.
The inventory of the old mill listed several sacks of pilcorn alongside the regular barley.
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(UK, dialect) The naked oat.
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