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1. Rye
   HMS Rye was a British Bangor Class minesweeper of about 640 tons displacement launched in 1940. HMS Rye was powered by two 3-drum small tube type boilers providing a top speed of 16 knots. She carried a complement of 60 and was armed with one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun; one 2 pdr anti-aircraft gun; two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and four machine-guns.
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2. rye
   [n] - the seed of the cereal grass 2. [n] - hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement 3. [n] - distilled from rye or rye and malt
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3. Rye
   Now a minority crop, rye will grow on poor 'hungry' soils. Resembling barley with awns but with a much taller straw it is still favoured in Eastern Europe.
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4. rye
   a hardy annual cereal grass that has loose spikes with an articulate rachis and long-awned lemmas Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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5. Rye
   Rye noun [ Middle English rie , reie , Anglo-Saxon ryge ; akin to Icelandic rugr , Swedish råg , Danish rug , Dutch rogge , Old High German rocco , roggo , German rocken ,...
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6. rye
   1. <botany> A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. ... 2. A disease in a hawk. ... <botany> Rye grass, Italian rye grass,, any plant of the genus Elymus, tal...
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7. rye
   rye whiskey noun whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
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8. rye
   Secale cereale noun hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
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9. rye
   (ri) the cereal plant Secale cereale, and its nutritious seed.
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10. Rye
    • (n.) A disease in a hawk. • (n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
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11. Rye
    town (parish), Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, on a hill by the River Rother. The ...
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12. Rye
    city and town (township), on Long Island Sound, in Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. The original town site, at Pendingo Neck, was ...
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13. rye
    (species Secale cereale), cereal grass and its edible grain that is used to make rye bread and rye whiskey. The plant grows to a height of 1 to 2 m ... [5 related articles]
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14. Rye
    Rye is a Irish boy name. The meaning of the name is `Island meadow.` The name Rye doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Rye seems to be unique!
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15. rye
    
    • the seed of the cereal grass
    • hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
    
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16. rye
    rye, cereal grain of the family Gramineae (grass family). The grain, Secale cereale, is important chiefly in Central and N Europe. It seems to have been domesticated later than wheat and other staple grains; cultivated rye is quite similar to the wild forms and no traces of it have been found among ...
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17. Rye
    Rye, town (1991 pop. 4,127), East Sussex, SE England, on the Rother River. It is a tourist resort and small port with boatbuilding and netmaking industries. Rye was one of the “ancient towns” added to the Cinque Ports. It had a thriving trade in the 17th cent. but decayed after the reces...
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18. Rye
    Rye, city (1990 pop. 14,936), Westchester co., SE N.Y., a suburb of New York City, on Long Island Sound; settled 1660, inc. as a city 1942. It is chiefly residential, with a cancer-research center, a hardware and locks manufacturing company, and several corporate offices. In colonial times, Rye was ...
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19. Rye
    Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass cultivated in Russia, Germany and Scandinavia. It's flour is used to make ' black bread', a dark and rather sour bread.
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20. rye
    Tall annual cereal grass grown extensively in northern Europe and other temperate regions. The flour is used to make dark-coloured (`black`) breads. Rye is grown mainly as a food crop for animals, but the grain is also used to make whisky and breakfast cereals. (Secale cereale.)
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21. Rye
    Grain used in whiskey-making, most notably in the USA, where rye whiskey was once more popular than Bourbon. Now something of a niche product, rye is making a stealthy comeback among US connoisseurs.
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22. Rye
    A type of grain used to produce whisk(e)y, it is particularly favoured in America. Indeed, the majority of whiskey produced in America before Prohibition was Rye Whiskey. Rye is said to bring a spicy character.
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23. Rye
    `Rye` (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain and as a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, rye beer, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also be eaten ...
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24. Rye
    (city) `Rye` is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is separate from the town of Rye which is larger than the city. Rye city, formerly the village of Rye, was part of the town until 1942, when it was received its charter as a city, the most recent to be issued in New Yor...
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25. Rye
    (town) --> `Rye` is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 43,880 at the 2000 census. It is a separate municipality from the city of Rye. The town of Rye (often referred to as "Rye Town") contains two villages – Port Chester and Rye Brook â...
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