shredded, ppl. a.
(ˈʃrɛdɪd)
[pa. pple. of shred v.]
a. Divided, cut, or torn into shreds.
shredded wheat: the grain of wheat cut by machinery into long filaments freq. eaten as a breakfast cereal. Often written with capital initials as if a proprietary term.
| 1577 Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. ix. viii. 178 Others gnawing the small shreded tops of greene grasse..vsed them for foode. 1656 Marnetté Perf. Cook 241 Adde your shredded herbs thereunto. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Amb. 305 The ordinary Forrage for Horses is..Rice mixt with shredded Straw. 1713 C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 249 Ye shredded clouds that fall in Snow. 1864 R. A. Arnold Cotton Famine 514 The bleached waste of flax, or of shredded cotton-goods. 1891 A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. s.v., Blanched and shredded pistachio nuts. 1899 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 171/3 Shredded wheat drink, 1-lb. package. 1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. lxvii. 1721 Menus for simple breakfasts..Buttered shredded wheat. 1911 Galsworthy Patrician ii. iv. 199 A grape fruit, which, with a shredded wheat biscuit, constituted her first meal. 1944 [see puffed ppl. a. c]. 1980 Times 6 Feb. 13/8 The arrival of a truck loaded with packets of Shredded Wheat. |
† b. Stripped of one's wealth, fleeced. Obs.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden 38 Like a swearing shredded gamester, that looseth at one set all that euer he is worth. |