different between barley vs barleycorn

English

Etymology

From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærl?? (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr, Norwegian Bokmål bygg), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ars- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere +? -ly. See English brew

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??li/
• Homophones: Bali (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??(?)li

Noun

barley (usually uncountable, plural barleys)

1. A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
2. (Singapore) seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)

Hypernyms

• (grain crop): grain, cereal

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Further reading

• barley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hordeum vulgare on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Braley, barely, bearly, bleary

Scots

Etymology

Probably a corruption of English parley.

Interjection

barley

1. A cry for truce in children's games.

English

Etymology

From barley +? corn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)li?k??(?)n/

Noun

barleycorn (plural barleycorns)

1. A grain of barley.
2. (obsolete) The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes
3. (architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two mouldings.

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