[f. BREAD + STUFF.] Material for bread; grain, flour: now usually in pl.
1793. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), III. 509. France receives favorably our bread stuff, rice, wood, [etc.].
1845. Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 282. ‘Take my breadstuffs and I’ll give you a cheque at sight on the Pennsylvanian Bank.’
1847. Ld. G. Bentinck, in Croker Papers (1884), III. xxv. 142. Loaded with 1800 tons of breadstuffs.
