Agric. local. [Etymology unknown: see prec.] Ears of which the corn does not separate from the chaff by ordinary threshing. (Cullum, 1784.)
1784. Sir J. Cullum, Hist. Hawsted, 219. Chaff, colder, and stover.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, Colder, Light ears and chaff left in the Caving-sieve, after dressing corn. It is also called Caving or the Cavings and Cosh.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Colder, broken ears of corn mixed with short fragments of straw, beaten off by the flail.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. 118. Hay or straw, with a few turnip tops and barley ‘colder,’ all cut into fine chaff.
