--- title: B — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 8 description: The 1119 words of the English dictionary under B, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / B # B — The English dictionary · page 8 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* A barb is a sharp point that sticks out backwards from the tip of a fish hook, arrow or wire, so it is hard to pull out.[↗](../../barb/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A barb is an unkind remark meant to hurt someone.[↗](../../barb/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In biology, barbs are the thin side threads on a feather, and the sharp backward hooks on a bee's sting.[↗](../../barb/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fish hook has a barb so the fish can't slip off.[↗](../../barb/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The bee's sting has tiny barbs.[↗](../../barb/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Barbed wire runs along the top of the fence.[↗](../../barb/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her barb about my hair really hurt.[↗](../../barb/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Each feather has hundreds of tiny barbs.[↗](../../barb/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful — the barbs on the wire are sharp.[↗](../../barb/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The arrowhead had a barb at the back.[↗](../../barb/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He ignored the barbs from the other team.[↗](../../barb/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **barbarian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (history) A name the ancient Greeks and Romans gave to people from outside their world, whom they saw as wild and uncivilised.[↗](../../barbarian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who behaves in a very cruel, violent or rough way.[↗](../../barbarian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal, jokey) A person with bad manners or no taste.[↗](../../barbarian/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "You put ketchup on that?[↗](../../barbarian/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") You barbarian!"[↗](../../barbarian/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Romans built walls to keep out the barbarians.[↗](../../barbarian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Greeks called foreigners barbarians because their speech sounded like "bar-bar".[↗](../../barbarian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Barbarian tribes attacked Rome.[↗](../../barbarian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · "Who eats pizza with pineapple?[↗](../../barbarian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") Barbarians!" joked my uncle.[↗](../../barbarian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Only a barbarian would hurt an animal for fun.[↗](../../barbarian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The Vikings were seen as barbarians by the monks they raided.[↗](../../barbarian/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Had his thoughts ventured to fly with the ships of the barbarians, to their homes in far distant England?[↗](../../barbarian/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **barbarous** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Barbarous means very cruel, savage or uncivilised, without pity for others.[↗](../../barbarous/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is a formal, rather old word.[↗](../../barbarous/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The king's barbarous laws made the people weep.[↗](../../barbarous/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop this barbarous practice at once\![↗](../../barbarous/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a barbarous act to leave the old dog out in the cold.[↗](../../barbarous/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **barbecue** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A metal grill or frame used for cooking food outdoors over hot coals, wood or gas.[↗](../../barbecue/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An outdoor meal or party where food is cooked like this.[↗](../../barbecue/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To cook food on a barbecue.[↗](../../barbecue/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We had a barbecue in the back garden.[↗](../../barbecue/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad barbecued sausages and corn.[↗](../../barbecue/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep away from the hot barbecue.[↗](../../barbecue/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Make sure the chicken is cooked right through.[↗](../../barbecue/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We're invited to a barbecue on Saturday.[↗](../../barbecue/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pass the barbecue sauce, please.[↗](../../barbecue/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **barbed** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Barbed means having barbs — small sharp hooks or points pointing backwards, which make something hard to pull out, like a fish hook.[↗](../../barbed/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A barbed remark is a comment that is unkind and meant to hurt.[↗](../../barbed/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Stay away from the barbed wire fence.[↗](../../barbed/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A honeybee's sting is barbed, so it stays in your skin.[↗](../../barbed/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fishing hook is barbed, so the fish can't slip off.[↗](../../barbed/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Porcupine quills are barbed and hard to remove.[↗](../../barbed/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer put up barbed wire to keep the cows in.[↗](../../barbed/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She made a barbed comment about my drawing.[↗](../../barbed/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?[↗](../../barbed/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.40.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barbed/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **barbel** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A barbel is a freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers at its mouth, which it uses to find food on the river bed.[↗](../../barbel/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The barbels are these thin feelers themselves.[↗](../../barbel/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The barbel lay still on the river bed.[↗](../../barbel/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A barbel has feelers like whiskers near its mouth.[↗](../../barbel/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fishermen caught a large barbel in the river.[↗](../../barbel/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **barberry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A barberry is a prickly bush with small yellow flowers and red berries that taste sour, often grown as a hedge.[↗](../../barberry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hedge was full of barberry bushes.[↗](../../barberry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Red barberries grew along the path.[↗](../../barberry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sheep avoided the prickly barberry.[↗](../../barberry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **bard** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old) A bard was a poet and singer who told stories in verse, especially in old Celtic lands such as Wales, Ireland and Scotland.[↗](../../bard/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (literary) A bard is any poet.[↗](../../bard/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «The Bard» means William Shakespeare.[↗](../../bard/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The bard sang of the great deeds of the king.[↗](../../bard/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Welsh bards compete at the Eisteddfod.[↗](../../bard/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Shakespeare is called the Bard of Avon.[↗](../../bard/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The bard played his harp by the fire.[↗](../../bard/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Robert Burns is Scotland's national bard.[↗](../../bard/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad thought himself a great bard and wrote songs about himself.[↗](../../bard/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “I would wait twice as long for a poem,” said the inveterate bard.[↗](../../bard/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **bare** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Bare means not covered by clothes, like bare feet or bare arms.[↗](../../bare/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Bare means empty or with nothing on it, like a bare room or bare trees in winter.[↗](../../bare/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Bare means just the smallest amount, as in the bare minimum.[↗](../../bare/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To bare something means to show it by uncovering it, like an animal baring its teeth.[↗](../../bare/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* Without covering, or with nothing left in it.[↗](../../bare/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't walk on the beach in bare feet; there may be glass.[↗](../../bare/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The trees are bare in winter.[↗](../../bare/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cupboard was bare; there was no food left.[↗](../../bare/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He lifted the heavy box with his bare hands.[↗](../../bare/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog bared its teeth and growled.[↗](../../bare/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her room had bare white walls.[↗](../../bare/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He did the bare minimum of homework.[↗](../../bare/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She ran out with her little bare feet.[↗](../../bare/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.'[↗](../../bare/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") And he went to a bare height.[↗](../../bare/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.23.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bare/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.[↗](../../bare/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bare/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.[↗](../../bare/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.18.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bare/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare; and in His temple all say: 'Glory.'[↗](../../bare/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.29.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bare/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.'[↗](../../bare/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") And he went to a bare height.[↗](../../bare/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.23.3, JPS 1917) · She ran out with her little bare feet.[↗](../../bare/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (The Pink Fairy Book) · Never mind if you leave the palace bare.’[↗](../../bare/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (The Pink Fairy Book) **barefoot** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Barefoot means not wearing any shoes or socks on your feet.[↗](../../barefoot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We ran barefoot on the beach.[↗](../../barefoot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't walk barefoot where there might be broken glass.[↗](../../barefoot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She does gymnastics barefoot.[↗](../../barefoot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sand was too hot to walk on barefoot.[↗](../../barefoot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the poor boy was barefoot in the snow.[↗](../../barefoot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I stepped on a bee when I was barefoot in the garden.[↗](../../barefoot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Many children go barefoot at home.[↗](../../barefoot/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He walked barefoot across the cool grass.[↗](../../barefoot/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "I'd rather walk barefoot than drive with him in a coach!"[↗](../../barefoot/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, (Prophets ISA.20.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barefoot/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.[↗](../../barefoot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.20.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barefoot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.'[↗](../../barefoot/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.[↗](../../barefoot/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.20.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barefoot/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **barehanded** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Using only your hands, without gloves, tools or weapons.[↗](../../barehanded/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He caught the ball barehanded.[↗](../../barehanded/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She picked up the nettles barehanded and got stung.[↗](../../barehanded/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Never pick up broken glass barehanded.[↗](../../barehanded/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The hero fought the wolf barehanded.[↗](../../barehanded/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad catches crabs barehanded.[↗](../../barehanded/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It was so cold that working barehanded hurt.[↗](../../barehanded/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **bareheaded** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Bareheaded means with nothing on the head, without a hat or cap.[↗](../../bareheaded/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He walked bareheaded in the rain.[↗](../../bareheaded/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The bareheaded girl shivered in the snow.[↗](../../bareheaded/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Take off your hat, and stand bareheaded in the church.[↗](../../bareheaded/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **barely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Only just; almost not (I barely caught the bus).[↗](../../barely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Hardly at all; very little (She barely ate).[↗](../../barely/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Only a very short time before (We had barely sat down when the phone rang).[↗](../../barely/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I barely finished the test in time.[↗](../../barely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · There was barely enough cake for everyone.[↗](../../barely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He could barely see through the fog.[↗](../../barely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We barely knew each other then.[↗](../../barely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppy was barely a week old.[↗](../../barely/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She barely passed, with 50 out of 100.[↗](../../barely/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I'd barely got home when it started to rain.[↗](../../barely/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · They made their rush, and I barely escaped from them.[↗](../../barely/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **bareness** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The state of being bare, with nothing on it or in it, such as land without plants or covering.[↗](../../bareness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **bargain** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bargain is something you buy for less than its usual price, a good deal.[↗](../../bargain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A bargain is an agreement in which each person promises to do something.[↗](../../bargain/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To bargain means to talk with someone to agree on a price or a deal, trying to get a better one.[↗](../../bargain/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* These shoes were a bargain at half price.[↗](../../bargain/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We found lots of bargains at the car boot sale.[↗](../../bargain/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · At the market, Dad bargained for a lower price.[↗](../../bargain/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We made a bargain: I tidy my room and I can stay up late.[↗](../../bargain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep your side of the bargain\![↗](../../bargain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The witch made a bargain with the princess.[↗](../../bargain/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A 2-litre bottle for 1 dollar is a better bargain than a 1-litre bottle for 70 cents.[↗](../../bargain/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The storm was more than we bargained for.[↗](../../bargain/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The landlord agreed to the bargain.[↗](../../bargain/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **barge** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A barge is a long boat with a flat bottom used to carry heavy loads on rivers and canals.[↗](../../barge/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal verb) To barge means to push roughly or rudely past people or into a place.[↗](../../barge/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To barge in means to interrupt or enter rudely without being asked.[↗](../../barge/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A barge carried sand along the canal.[↗](../../barge/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The barge can carry 300 tonnes; how many trips for 1,200 tonnes?[↗](../../barge/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some families live on narrow barges.[↗](../../barge/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't barge in while I'm on the phone\![↗](../../barge/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He barged past me in the queue.[↗](../../barge/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog barged into the kitchen.[↗](../../barge/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Here a splendid barge was waiting for them, and from it they watched all sorts of races and feats of swimming and diving.[↗](../../barge/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **bargewoman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bargewoman is a woman who lives on or steers a barge, a long flat-bottomed boat that carries goods on canals and rivers.[↗](../../bargewoman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The bargewoman steered the barge along the canal.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad pretended to be a washerwoman to the bargewoman.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bargewoman's horse pulled the barge on the towpath.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Furious, the bargewoman threw Toad into the river.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Canal families, bargemen and bargewomen, lived on their boats.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bargewoman laughed at Toad's poor washing.[↗](../../bargewoman/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **barium** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A soft, silvery chemical element, a metal, with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56.[↗](../../barium/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A white drink with a barium compound that patients swallow so their stomach shows up on an X-ray (a barium meal).[↗](../../barium/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Barium makes fireworks glow green.[↗](../../barium/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The symbol for barium is Ba.[↗](../../barium/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My granddad had to drink barium before his X-ray.[↗](../../barium/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Barium is a metal in the periodic table.[↗](../../barium/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Pure barium reacts with water.[↗](../../barium/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Barium shows up white on an X-ray.[↗](../../barium/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **bark** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bark is the short loud sound a dog makes.[↗](../../bark/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To bark is to make this sound.[↗](../../bark/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Bark is the hard outer covering of a tree trunk and branches.[↗](../../bark/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To bark (at someone) is to say something in a loud, sharp voice, like an order.[↗](../../bark/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dog barked at the postman.[↗](../../bark/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We heard a loud bark from next door.[↗](../../bark/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bark of the oak tree is rough.[↗](../../bark/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some animals eat tree bark in winter.[↗](../../bark/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The coach barked orders at the team.[↗](../../bark/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His bark is worse than his bite.[↗](../../bark/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If you think I did it, you're barking up the wrong tree.[↗](../../bark/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Away, away," barked the old yard-dog.[↗](../../bark/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · His watchmen are all blind, without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; raving, lying down, loving to slumber.[↗](../../bark/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.56.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bark/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **barley** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt.[↗](../../barley/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer grows barley in that field.[↗](../../barley/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Barley soup is warm and filling.[↗](../../barley/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Barley is used to make malt.[↗](../../barley/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Barley was one of the first crops people farmed.[↗](../../barley/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Lemon barley water is a British drink.[↗](../../barley/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The wind made the barley wave.[↗](../../barley/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They were flying about when three grains of barley fell on the floor.[↗](../../barley/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barley/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.[↗](../../barley/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.9.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barley/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor.[↗](../../barley/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings RUT.3.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barley/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.[↗](../../barley/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barley/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../barley/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **barleycorn** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A barleycorn is one grain of barley, a tiny seed from the barley plant.[↗](../../barleycorn/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An old unit of length, about a third of an inch, used in old measuring.[↗](../../barleycorn/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* One barleycorn is a tiny grain of barley.[↗](../../barleycorn/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hen pecked up every barleycorn in the yard.[↗](../../barleycorn/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fairy said she would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels.[↗](../../barleycorn/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) … [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/7/) **8** [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/9/) … [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/59/) - ← previous: [page 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/7/) - next →: [page 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/9/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)