mangcorn

English

Alternative forms

• mongcorn, muncorn

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English menġan (“to mix”). See mingle, and corn.

Noun

mangcorn

1. (obsolete) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain, sown together as one crop.
   • 1910, Henrik Marczali, Hungary in the Eighteenth Century, page 55:

     Even in other parts of the country mangcorn, and rye, not pure wheat, were the chief products.

   • 1918, Commerce Reports of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 1183:

     Mangcorn (mixed grains, especially wheat and rye) in 1916, 438,128 tons; in 1917, 395.988 tons; […]

   • 1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39:

     Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.

Synonyms

maslin

References

• “mangcorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.