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barleycorn::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | barley |
| Type of | caryopsis, cereal, food grain, grain |
| Has types | pearl barley |
Examples of barleycorn
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Nevertheless, its ancestor is the barleycorn, which should also be mentioned.
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He opens a filthy leather pouch of roasted barleycorn flour, or tsampa.
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Barleycorn kept the sports-bar theme that started it all in Chicago, but stepped it up and made it upscale.
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Barleycorn gives it to you close to home in Schaumburg.
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The early unit was a grain of wheat or barleycorn used to weigh the precious metals silver and gold.
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An Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn.
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After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorn, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit.
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Old Babylonian Weights and Measures Also note that the article only states that a part equals a barleycorn, not that it was also known as a barleycorn.
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- A grain of barley
- English units refers to the historical units of measurement in medieval England, which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. ...
- [ba(r)li k3(r)n], in Three Barley-corns, a name for a children s juggling game, played with three peas, one of which they pretend to put in their eye and pull out of their mouth : Me grammother sent me three barley-curns, an here they are ye plainly see ; she toul me to take one up an taste ...
- An old measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
