potatoe

plural potatoes

1. nonstandardobsoleteObsolete spelling of potato.

   The Potatoe now in use, (Solanum tuberosum,) was brought to England by the Colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh[…]

   1846, Charles Palfray Bosson, chapter I, in Observations on the Potatoe, and a Remedy for the Potatoe Plague, page 3

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   Mr. Hyett submitted to the meeting the following account of a series of experiments which he had tried upon the cultivation of the potatoe during the season just ended[…]

   1842, William Henry Hyett, “Experiments on the growth of the Potatoe”, in Journal of the Farmers' Club

   The potatoe plant in a state of health contains several ingredients, the most important of which are starch, albumen, and solanine.

   1846, Alfred Smee, chapter III, in The potatoe plant, its uses and properties: together with the cause of the present malady, page 33

   On Tuesday, the 7th of August, about six, P.M., I was summoned to attend Miss M. E. H., aged 14, the messenger stating she had eaten the berries of the potatoe plant, portions of which she showed me.

   1859 September 3, Thomas Morris, “Case of poisoning by potatoe-berries”, in British Medical Journal, →DOI, page 719

   In the construction of mowing machines the German engineers could not proceed along original lines to the same extent as was the case with potatoe lifting machines, the start which foreign designers had in this [...]

   1920, Engineering Progress, Volume 1, page 105

   The mouldable food product may be potatoe meal and the firm food item may be a weiner so that the resulting edible unit is a weiner wrapped in a blanket of potatoe that may thereafter be cooked.

   1974, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 923, The Office, page 1026