rye
IPA: rˈaɪ
noun
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
- Rye bread.
- (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
- (US, Canada) A drink of rye.
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.
- A small town and civil parish in East Sussex, England.
- A hamlet and civil parish in Hampshire, England.
- A river in North Yorkshire, England that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
- A census-designated place in Cleveland County, Arkansas.
- A small statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.
- A ghost town in Adair County, Missouri.
- A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
- A coastal suburban city in Westchester County, New York.
- A large town in Westchester County, New York.
- A surname.
- A nickname of the given name Ryan.
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Examples of "rye" in Sentences
- Cultural references to the novel The Catcher in the Rye.
- Nowadays Frisian rye bread is seen as the regular rye bread.
- Rye whiskey generally refers to whiskies distilled from rye.
- The calorific content of drinks like vodka and rye come from acetate.
- When rye is left to sit it can become infected with the fungus ergot.
- For example, the town of Rye is completely separate from the city of Rye.
- It joins the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering near the village of Salton.
- The compass represented the intelligentsia, and the ring of rye the farmers.
- The painting represents boundless rye fields in the Central Black Earth Region.
- The meat from the soup may also be put on the rye bread and eaten with mustard.