potatoe

English

Noun

potatoe (plural potatoes)

(now nonstandard) Archaic spelling of potato.
- 1842, William Henry Hyett, “Experiments on the growth of the Potatoe”, in Journal of the Farmers' Club‎^[1]:
  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 […]
- 1846, Charles Palfray Bosson, chapter I, in Observations on the Potatoe, and a Remedy for the Potatoe Plague‎^[2], page 3:
  The Potatoe now in use, (Solanum tuberosum,) was brought to England by the Colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh […]
- 1846, Alfred Smee, chapter III, in The potatoe plant, its uses and properties: together with the cause of the present malady‎^[3], page 33:
  The potatoe plant in a state of health contains several ingredients, the most important of which are starch, albumen, and solanine.
- 1859 September 3, Thomas Morris, “Case of poisoning by potatoe-berries”, in British Medical Journal, →DOI, page 719:
  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.
- 1920, Engineering Progress, Volume 1, page 105:
  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 [...]
- 1974, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 923, The Office, page 1026:
  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.
- 1976, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, New Developments in Agricultural Stabilization: Proceedings of the 1976 Workshop of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Held at Quebec City, Quebec, March, 1976, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, page 98:
  The result showed that springtime futures for soybeans and corn predicted fall harvest prices very well, whereas potatoe futures were a poor predictor of fall potatoe prices.