Emmet vs Emmer - What's the difference?
emmet | emmer |
(archaic) An ant.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
* 1789 , William Blake, Songs of Innocence , :
* 1814 , William Wordsworth, The Excursion , IV.430:
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
(Cornish dialect, pejorative) A tourist.
A species of wheat, .
As a proper noun emmet
is .As an adverb emmer is
always.emmet
English
Noun
(en noun)- He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […].
- Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
- [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
- We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.