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  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)liˌkɔː(ɹ)n/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Barleycorn verkar vara ett sammansatt ord. Prova att söka dess delar separat:

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A grain of barley.
  2. (obsolete) The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes
  3. (architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two mouldings.

Exempel

  • The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour.
  • This trip to Italy has actually enlarged the diameter of my head thirteen barleycorns!
  • Then shewed the devil the booke unto the friar, and the friar saw it was an uncut unique of incalculable value; the height of it was half a cubit and the breadth of it the fourth part of a cubit and the thickness of it five barleycorns lacking the space of three horsehairs.

Böjningsformer

Pluralbarleycorns

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