barley
IPA: bˈɑrɫi
noun
- A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
- (Singapore) seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)
- A village in Hertfordshire, England.
- A village in Lancashire, England.
- A surname.
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Examples of "barley" in Sentences
- The farmer sowed the field with barley.
- He forbade the planting of wheat and barley.
- The rind may also be boiled with the barley.
- The rest of the article seems barley acceptable.
- The rest of the world eats rice and makes beer out of barley.
- It is to offer a sheaf of the first barley on the second day.
- Traditionally, wheat and barley are the main crops of the region.
- Barley was principally grown in the northern parts of the country.
- Barley was principally grown in the northern parts of the presidency.
- A balanced bitterness is dominated by the flavor of the roasted barley.
- Bake at 350 until barley is tender and has absorbed liquid, about 1 - 1 1/2 hour.
- “Malted” barley is barley which is starting to germinate — a process that converts the starch in the kernels into a soluble form called dextrin.
- The resulting alchemy, about an 80/20 ratio of corn to barley, is then aged in barrels that have housed French pinot noir and American whiskey, as well as new unused barrels.
- In order to retain barley in the drought areas for feed or make it available for feed in Eastern Canada, we have been paying the malting premium on all barley which is sold for feeding purposes.
- The two main components of WhipperSnapper are malted barley (the same stuff they make Scotch from, although this barley is from Oregon) and un-aged or "white dog" Kentucky corn whiskey (from whence comes bourbon).
- When there are added to this loss the expense of carting the grain to and from the malt-house, and the maltster's charge for operating upon it (I presume in this case that the feeder is not his own maltster), it will be found that two tons of malt will cost the farmer nearly as much as three tons of barley; and he will then have to solve the problem -- _Whether or not malt is 40 or 50 per cent. more valuable as a feeding-stuff than barley_.