Definition of oats

"oats" in the noun sense

1. oat

annual grass of Europe and North Africa grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

2. oat

seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

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Quotations for oats

Water trotted is as good as oats. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Evening oats are good morning fodder. [ Proverb ]

Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Young is the goose that will not eat oats. [ Proverb ]

When the horse is starved, you bring him oats. [ Proverb ]

Happy is he who hath sowed his wild oats betimes. [ Proverb ]

Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]

A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. [ Proverb ]

A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats. [ Proverb ]

The sowing of wild oats is necessary in the life of a man. Libertinism is a leaven that ferments sooner or later. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]

Some kind of pace may be got out of the veriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. [ Lowell ]

oats in Scrabble®

The word oats is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters oats:

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oats in Words With Friends™

The word oats is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters oats:

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Word Growth involving oats

Shorter words in oats

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Longer words containing oats

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