单词	barleycorn
释义	barleycorn /ˈbɑːlɪkɔːn / noun 1A grain of barley.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. 1.1A former unit of measurement (about a third of an inch) based on the length of a grain of barley.The longest normal foot measured 39 barleycorns, or 13 inches, and was called size 13.... In England and Scotland, at least as early as the 12th century an inch was thought of as 3 barleycorns laid end to end. Use the following calculator to convert between feet and barleycorns.
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