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(Scotland) A food item made from the husk of the oat by a process similar to that by which common starch is made; flummery. quotations examples
It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.
1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 61