Usage examples for oat:

• Orkney Scotland A country cheese of the Orkney Islands where it is buried in the oat bin to ripen, and kept there between meals as well. "The Complete Book of Cheese" – Robert Carlton Brown

• The guard, who is alone with him on the back of the coach, is silent, but has muffled Tom's feet up in straw, and put the end of an oat sack over his knees. "Tom Brown's School Days" – Thomas Hughes

• But at the same tahme, Ah think Mr. Fulkerson is well oat of it fo' the present. "A Hazard of New Fortunes" – William Dean Howells