barley

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A grain crop used as food and for making beer and whisky.

   Farmers in this region grow wheat and barley.

Common collocations

• barley water Noun + noun

* 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.

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