Wheatmeal

[OE. hwǽtemelu = MHG. weiȥ(en)mel (G. weizenmehl), ON. hveitimiol (MSw. hvetemiol, etc.): see MEAL sb.¹] Meal or flour of wheat. Also attrib.

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c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 354. Ʒebriw wel swiþne briw þær on mid hwæte melwe.

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1382. Wyclif, Exod. xxix. 2. Of puyr whete meele thow shalt make alle thingis.

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1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. clviii. (W. de W.), T viij b/1. The flowur of whete meele hyghte Simula: and is the cheyf meele of whete.

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a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 72. Tak cow mylk, and put þerto a subtile whete meel.

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1579. in J. Nicholl, Comp. Ironm. (1866), 103. Wheat meale the best iij^s the bushell.

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1681. Grew, Musæum, II. II. ii. 222. It must be mixed nothing near so stiff as our Wheat-Meal.

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1767. Ann. Reg., Hist. Eur., 61. The bill to continue … the free importation of wheat and wheat-meal.

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1870. Daily News, 6 Dec. The mixed diet of linseed cake, barley, beanmeal, wheatmeal, peameal. Ibid. (1915), 5 Jan., 4. It is specially necessary that the sick and wounded should not go short of wheatmeal bread.

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