(Usually pol-.) In the names of awnless varieties of cereal, as polbarley, polbere, polwheat. Obsolete.

A hardy variety of barley grown mainly in northern England and Scotland. Cf. bere, n.1.

A variety of two-rowed barley having long ears (often contrasted with sprat-barley).

A species of barley, Hordeum zeocriton, with short broad ears and long awns.

= way barley n.

the wild barley, Hordeum murinum.

bigg or bear, a coarse variety of barley.

(Usually pol-.) In the names of awnless varieties of cereal, as polbarley, polbere, polwheat. Obsolete.

Designating varieties of barley and oats having grain that separates easily from the husk or that lacks a husk, as pilled barley, pilled oats; = naked…

= way barley n.

= naked barley (naked, adj. 11b).

barley which has been ground to remove the husks; cf. barley, n. 1b.

wall barley, Hordeum murinum.

a (perhaps coarse) variety of barley cultivated in Scotland.

= sprat-barley, n.

(a) a variety of barley originating in Scotland; (b) barley from which the outer husk has been removed but the grain left otherwise intact (also…

(see quot.).

(see bere, n.1).

meadow barley.

a cultivated variety of barley with a short, wide ear and spreading awns; also called sprat barley.

a species of cultivated barley (Hordeum zeocriton) with short broad ears, also called Sprat barley.