[
US
/ˈbɑɹɫi/
]
[ UK /bˈɑːli/ ]
[ UK /bˈɑːli/ ]
NOUN
- cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
- a grain of barley
How To Use barley In A Sentence
- Bake at 350 until barley is tender and has absorbed liquid, about 1 - 1 1/2 hour. Archive 2006-11-01
- Chromic oxide was thoroughly premixed with finely ground barley in a horizontal ribbon mixer.
- Distilled in the old Irish tradition this pure pot still single malt whiskey uses only the most natural Irish ingredients of barley and fresh spring water.
- The closer he came the heavier the scent of barley-based ale became.
- His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.
- There might be game, sea trout or a barley risotto on the menu. Times, Sunday Times
- “Malted” barley is barley which is starting to germinate — a process that converts the starch in the kernels into a soluble form called dextrin. Archive 2006-01-01
- For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
- Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
- Siberia a country in which nothing will grow; in some parts there is wheat, and where _wheat_ will not grow _barley_ will, and where _barley_ will not grow _turnips_ will. Far Off