1) Barley 2) Grain
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1) Beverage of a kind 2) Burns celebrated this John 3) Caryopsis 4) English surname 5) Grain 6) Malt liquor base 7) Subject of Burns poem 8) Unit of length 9) Whisky
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- a grain of barley
- a grain of barley
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[unit] The barleycorn is the smallest Anglo-Saxon unit of length. Notionally the length of a corn of barley, its actual length was determined in relation to a particular rod of metal, typically a yard-bar, and thus 1/108th of a yard, 1/36 of foot, or 1/3 of an inch. The unit was nominally the base unit from which the inch was defined. Three...
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old unit of length equal to one-third inch
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• (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. • (n.) A grain or `corn` of barley.
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Bar'ley·corn` noun [ See
Corn .]
1. A grain or 'corn' of barley.
2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
John Barleycorn ,
a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or wh...
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A barleycorn was a British long measure equivalent to 1/3rd of an inch.
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[n] - a grain of barley
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noun a grain of barley
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