(n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
(n.) Any small sum of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(2) (Perhaps if Scotland goes independent we Londoners could join up with them, share the pound, and leave the rest of England with something Ukip-ish, like the groat?)
(3) Greene told shareholders: "When you post a first class letter we charge you the same to deliver it tomorrow in Solihull or in John O'Groats.
(4) Lane is founder of a running club and, after having both hips replaced, ran from Land's End to John O'Groats.
(5) Ileal amino acid digestibilities tended to be highest for wheat and oat groats, followed by corn, sorghum, barley and wheat middlings.
(6) Almost at John O'Groats, the beach at Ness of Duncansby sometimes has masses of shells.
(7) Mortality due to necrotic enteritis was higher among chickens fed rations based on wheat, rye, barley, and oat groats than among chickens fed corn-based rations.
(8) The slope-ratio assay rendered a relative nutritive value of 59 for Goodland oat groats, assuming 100 for whole egg protein.
(9) Protein concentrates from oil cake of tomato seeds and corn bud, and groats of safflower and flax were studied for the content of the main food substances: proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, mineral substances, as well as for the fatty acid lipid spectrum, amino acid composition of proteins and the level of available lysine.
(10) During the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd experiment the sheep received rations with additionally included soya groats, soya groats and carbamide and carbamide and carrots with 17, 18.5 and 17.7% raw protein.
(11) Commercial seed mixes for psittacines commonly contain corn, sunflower, safflower, pumpkin and squash seeds, wheat, peanuts, millet, oat groats and buckwheat, although other seeds may be present.
(12) The range in ileal digestibilities was 73.8 (sorghum) to 84.2% (wheat) for lysine, 69.6 (corn) to 81.4% (wheat) for tryptophan and 63.4 (wheat middlings) to 77.9% (oat groats) for threonine.
(13) Somewhere along the way, marathons became commonplace and a whole new breed of extreme activities came along – the Ironman triathlon ; multi-day cycle events like John O’Groats to Lands End; crazy ultra marathons like the Thames Path 100 ; and events that defy description like the Tough Mudder .
(14) "There were fewer photographers," Gough says of his second arrival at John O'Groats.
(15) A comparative study of virulence, viability and antibiotic sensitivity of Y. pestis strains grown at 28 degrees C and 37 degrees C in yeast-casein medium, yeast medium with Hottinger's meat digest and yeast medium with protein hydrolysate obtained from sunflower seed groats has been made.
(16) Gough reached John O'Groats on 22 January 2004 and the media were waiting.
(17) The company states: “Think of it as the Irish equivalent of Britain’s Land’s End to John O’Groats, but with rugged coastline, Irish music, unique landscapes and lively pubs.” Pub stops aside, the 525-mile route is definitely a significant adventure, involving six days of cycling with around 85 miles tackled each day.
(18) Gross energy digestibilities for corn, sorghum and oat groats were similar; wheat had a slightly lower (P less than .05) digestibility, followed by barley (P less than .05), with wheat middlings being the least (P less than .05) digestible.
(19) Apparent nutrient digestibilities of yellow-dent corn, low-tannin sorghum, hard red winter wheat, barley, oat groats and wheat middlings were determined near the end of the small intestine and over the total digestive tract of growing pigs.
(20) During a marathon relay from John O'Groats to Lands End (JOGLE) various blood and urine parameters were measured in the runners.
Gruel
Definition:
(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(2) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(3) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
(4) The SNL gig turned out to be a grueling experience, and she walked away after just one season.
(5) A suggestion to overcome this has been to develop a tablet for addition to the rice gruel.
(6) Jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged a judge in Moscow today to end his days "slurping gruel" in prison, saying the fate of every Russian was tied up with his own.
(7) Since rice is far more available in rural homes (95%) than any type of sugar (30%) and rice gruel is a widely accepted food during illness, a field trial was conducted in three areas (total population, 68,345) to compare the acceptability and use of rice-based ORT with that of sugar-based ORT.
(8) Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP for North East Somerset, told the prime minister: “The thin gruel has been further watered down.
(9) The survival of strains of Campylobacter jejuni and enteropathogenic and enterotoxigenic (LT) Escherichia coli was investigated in mahewu, a traditional fermented cereal gruel.
(10) During culinary treatment these changes are levelled out, but in the end the level of virtually all types of sugar is higher in the gruel cooked with hydrothermally treated grit than in that prepared with initial, untreated grit.
(11) Another effective process to improve protein and energy digestibilities is fermentation (souring) of cereal gruels.
(12) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.
(13) US investigators are unlikely to visit the scene of the destruction, which has been the setting for a grueling fight between Isis and the US’s Syrian Arab and Kurdish proxy forces since 21 May.
(14) All birds were fasted for 24 hr on days 4-5, another blood sample taken, and then refed the usual gruel.
(15) Freshly prepared commercial baby milks were compared to the freshly prepared local gruel and were found similar.
(16) Almost all gruel samples stimulated peroxidation of rat liver microsomes, and this was usually inhibited by the iron-ion chelator desferrioxamine.
(17) The results obtained by a radioisotope dilution (RID) method for the determination of vitamin B12 in gruel were compared with those obtained by a standard microbiological assay with Lactobacillus leichmannii.
(18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(19) Though breast feeding was universal and of adequate duration, milk production was mostly inadequate because of too early supplementation with low-energy cereal gruels with little or no protein-enrichment.
(20) Timing of announcements for a potential transition team was unclear, but the aide was willing to indulge an exhausted press corps and speculate on when they might finally be safe taking a break from a grueling schedule that for some had spanned more than two years trailing Clinton.