† secourgeon, -ion Obs. rare.
[a. F. secourgeon (in Estienne, orig. of this passage), var. of escourgeon (Cotgr. scourgeon, Walloon socoran).]
= amelcorn, an inferior variety of wheat.
| 1600 Surflet Country Farm v. xx. 710 You may make meale likewise of other corne then of wheate, as of barley, rie, meslin, secourgeon. Ibid. 714 Breade made of Secourgion. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 56/2 Secourgion is a lean, wrinkled and starved Corn, something like unto Barley. |