- Look up
barleycorn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Barleycorn may
refer to: A
grain of
barley Barleycorn (unit) a unit of length,
equal to one-third...
- John
Barleycorn Must Die is the
fourth studio album by
English rock band Traffic,
released in 1970 as
Island ILPS 9116 in the
United Kingdom,
United Artists...
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Royal Exchequer. The
formal barleycorn was 1⁄108 of its length. As
modern studies show, the
actual length of a
kernel of
barley varies from as
short as 0...
- "John
Barleycorn" is an
English and
Scottish folk song. The song's
protagonist is John
Barleycorn, a
personification of
barley and of the beer made from...
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English folklore, John
Barleycorn personifies the
grain and the
alcoholic beverages made from it.
English pub
names such as The
Barley Mow
allude to its role...
- "wheat corn", "
barley corn", and "rye
corn" for
other small-seeded
cereal grains referred to the
unique American grain maize as "Indian
corn." The term was...
- John
Barleycorn is an
autobiographical novel by Jack
London dealing with his
enjoyment of
drinking and
struggles with alcoholism. It was
published in 1913...
- law
dictionary that the
barleycorn was the
fundamental measure.
Butler observed, however, that "[a]s the
length of the
barley-
corn cannot be fixed, so the...
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grains (which may be malted) are used for
different varieties,
including barley,
corn, rye, and wheat.
Whisky is
typically aged in
wooden casks,
commonly of...
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Among the
crops harvested with a
combine are wheat, rice, oats, rye,
barley,
corn (maize), sorghum, millet, soybeans, flax (linseed),
sunflowers and rapeseed...
