oats – English noun declension

Noun: oats

Singular

oats

Oats are in the north corner of the farm.
Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.
Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.
Oats are good for you.
Must I beat the Bush while you catch the Game ;
Sow your wild oates,
And mind not her wild notes,
Of Alack &c.
[…]
[She] bid me fill, fill, fill
Her Sack &c.
But twas all in Vaine
For I had spilt my graine
With a Thwack, &c. [a. 1707, George Farquhar, The Works of George Farquhar, published 1988, page 55:]
“[…]he’s young,” he added excusingly. “And I suppose he’s just feeling his oats a bit.”
“Well he can save his damned oats up until we get into port—like any other sailor. If I catch him making those sort of passes at any woman who happens to be making a passage with us, Mister Samuals, I’ll disrate him and send him to the fo’c’sle!” [1945, Robert Close, Love me Sailor, published 1972, page 62:]
Now you been foolin’ with your oats, you been messin’ with your hay, you say, “If you take me back, baby, I’ll do it the other way.” [1975, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition, page 135:]

Faroese Nouns eitil.

English noun forms of oats