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Definition of barleycorn in English: barleycornnounˈbɑːlɪkɔːnˈbɑrliˌkɔrn 1A grain of barley. Example sentencesExamples - I have recently bought a breadmaker, and so far, Doves Barleycorn Flour makes the best loaf I have ever tasted!
- Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.
- He led a goat dressed in homespun, one of last year's barleycorns tucked above its ear.
- Human societies have used pebbles, nuts, barleycorn, bones, twigs, yarrow stalks, polished sticks, cards, coins, and dice the list goes on and on to make decisions that are transparently fair.
- The weight of a barleycorn, later renamed the grain is the original basis of all English weight systems.
- 1.1 A former unit of measurement (about a third of an inch) based on the length of a grain of barley.
Example sentencesExamples - Each barleycorn was one third on an inch, which added up to 12 inches or one "foot."
- The longest normal foot measured 39 barleycorns, or 13 inches, and was called size 13.
- Firstly there are three Barleycorns (Bc) to the inch, not our present inch, but the old Northern inch, (1.1 present inches), i.e. 36 Bc. to 13.2 inches.
- Use the following calculator to convert between feet and barleycorns.
- In England and Scotland, at least as early as the 12th century an inch was thought of as 3 barleycorns laid end to end.
Definition of barleycorn in US English: barleycornnounˈbɑrliˌkɔrnˈbärlēˌkôrn 1A grain of barley. Example sentencesExamples - I have recently bought a breadmaker, and so far, Doves Barleycorn Flour makes the best loaf I have ever tasted!
- The weight of a barleycorn, later renamed the grain is the original basis of all English weight systems.
- He led a goat dressed in homespun, one of last year's barleycorns tucked above its ear.
- Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.
- Human societies have used pebbles, nuts, barleycorn, bones, twigs, yarrow stalks, polished sticks, cards, coins, and dice the list goes on and on to make decisions that are transparently fair.
- 1.1 A former unit of measurement (about a third of an inch) based on the length of a grain of barley.
Example sentencesExamples - Firstly there are three Barleycorns (Bc) to the inch, not our present inch, but the old Northern inch, (1.1 present inches), i.e. 36 Bc. to 13.2 inches.
- In England and Scotland, at least as early as the 12th century an inch was thought of as 3 barleycorns laid end to end.
- The longest normal foot measured 39 barleycorns, or 13 inches, and was called size 13.
- Each barleycorn was one third on an inch, which added up to 12 inches or one "foot."
- Use the following calculator to convert between feet and barleycorns.
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