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单词 barleycorn
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Definition of barleycorn in English:

barleycorn

nounˈbɑːlɪkɔːnˈbɑrliˌkɔrn
  • 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. 1.1 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:

barleycorn

nounˈbɑrliˌkɔrnˈbärlēˌkôrn
  • 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. 1.1 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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