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A village in Hertfordshire, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A village in Lancashire, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
The seed of Job's tears. (Coix lacryma-jobi)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, uncountable, usually
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noun
a grain of barley
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: barleycorn
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Broader terms: grain, food grain, cereal
Narrower terms: pearl barley
noun
cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cereal, cereal grass
Narrower terms: common barley, Hordeum vulgare, barley grass, wall barley, Hordeum murinum, squirreltail barley, foxtail barley, squirreltail grass, Hordeum jubatum, little barley, Hordeum pusillum
History
* The village in Hertfordshire is from "Beora's ley," from *Beora + -ley (“clearing, lea”). The former is a personal name from Old English bera (“bear”). * The village in Lancashire is from Old English bar (“boar”) or bere (“barley”) + leah (“clearing”). * As an English surname, from the noun barley. As a south German surname, spelling variant of Behrle, Beerli, themselves related to the noun bear.
From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bhers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew.
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