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rice 
n. See wild rice 1963 quote.
See also: wild rice
- 1665 (1885) We had there a kinde of rice, much like oats. It grows in the water in 3 or 4 foote deepe.
- 1775 (1901) The rice grows in shoal water, and the Indians gather it by shaking the ears into their canoes.
- 1963 [Caption] Kitchener Halkett illustrates dexterity required in brushing rice kernels into canoe bottom using set of wooden batons.
- 1665 (1885) We had there a kinde of rice, much like oats. It grows in the water in 3 or 4 foote deepe.