DCHP-1 Online
wild oats trans. of Cdn F folle avoine Hist. 
See wild rice 1963 quote.
See also: wild rice
- 1744 All around its Banks, in the shallow Water and Marshes, grows a kind of wild Oat, of the Nature of Rice; the outward Husk is black, but the Grain within is white and clear like Rice; this the Indians beat off into their Canoes, and use for Food.
- 1765 (1933) But Just in the Canoe track the Wilde Oates were so thick that the Indans Could scarse Git one of thare Small Canoes into it to Geather it. . . .
- 1933 Wild rice was ordinarily called "oats" or "wild oats" by traders and voyageurs.
- 1944 Such items as these appear in the accounts: "5 kegs of wild oats of Kam."
- 1744 All around its Banks, in the shallow Water and Marshes, grows a kind of wild Oat, of the Nature of Rice; the outward Husk is black, but the Grain within is white and clear like Rice; this the Indians beat off into their Canoes, and use for Food.