Wheat-corn

Now rare. [OE. hwǽtecorn = MHG. weiȥ(en)korn (G. weizenkorn), ON. hveitikorn (MSw. hvetekorn, etc.): see CORN sb.¹]

  1.  A grain of wheat.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 34. Ʒenim hnutcyrnla & hwæte corn.

a. 1175.  Cott. Hom., 241. Þis bread was imaced of ane hwete corne.

13[?].  Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.), in Herrig’s Archiv, LXXXI. 102/4. But ȝif þat a whete-corn ffalle into þe eorþe lowe.

c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 165. He vsid to putt whete-cornys in his ere, & he lernyd a white dowffe to stand opon his shulder & take þaim oute.

1526.  Tindale, John xii. 24. Except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and deye, it bydeth alone.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXVII. xiii. II. 291. Little berries … of the bignesse of wheat corns.

1854.  Spencer, in Brit. Q. Rev., July, 140. Our own systems [of weights], both troy and avoirdupois, are derived primarily from wheat-corns.

  † 2.  = WHEAT sb. 1. Obs.

1425.  in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 108. Nother comyn herd ne sched herd com in the qwyte corn feld to the korn be lad awey.

1764.  Museum Rust., III. I. 1. The wheat-corn was remarkably backward, though it, in general, promised to be a good crop.