Barleycorn Definition

bärlē-kôrn
noun
The grain of barley.
American Heritage
Barley or a grain of barley.
Webster's New World
A unit of measure equal to the length of a grain of barley, or about13 inch (0.85 centimeter).
American Heritage
An old unit of linear measure equal to13 inch.
Webster's New World

A grain of barley.

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Noun

Singular:
barleycorn
Plural:
barleycorns

Origin of Barleycorn

Barleycorn Sentence Examples

  • The barley-corn has been personified as representing the malt liquor made from barley, as in Burns's song "John Barleycorn."

  • The fore-sight of the British service " short " Lee-Enfield (1903) has guards and also a lateral adjustment of the barleycorn.

  • The convivial verse, at its best in Dunbar's Testament of Mr Andrew Kennedy, may be studied in Quhy sould nocht Allane honorit be, one of the many eulogies of John Barleycorn anticipatory of Burns's well-known piece.

  • Burns's John Barleycorn); but it is better to refer it to the tearing of the flesh of the victim at sacrifices at which the deity or the sacred animal was slain, and sacramentally eaten raw (cf.

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