Oats that have been hulled, steamed & roasted en route to the table are called these, rhyming with "oats"
Here in the great hooded fireplace, roasts and fowls and "little birds" are 
cooked to ..... For more than a week blueberries have been ripe along the 
railroad track ... among the trees, contentedly eating hay, or munching oats from a 
feed-bag.