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barleycorn's Usage Examples:

nor allow others to use: Insofar as the dog neither itself eats the barleycorns, nor allows the horse to".

Digit 3⁄4 inch Finger 7⁄8 inch Inch 3 barleycorns (the historical legal definition) Nail 3 digits 2+1⁄4 inches 1⁄16.

of measure to multiples of 2, 3 or 5, for example there were 6 she (barleycorns) in a shu-si (finger) and 30 shu-si in a kush (cubit).

of a carob seed) was equivalent to the weight of 4 wheat grains or 3 barleycorns.

by side by thickness, although barleycorns are not a reliable standard of measurement.

pennyweights, and each pennyweight into 24 barleycorns.

line was eventually decimalized as 1⁄10 of an inch, without recourse to barleycorns.

Edward I or II, notionally continued to derive English units from three barleycorns "dry and round" to the inch and this statute remained in force until.

1⁄2 to 2⁄3 in or 1+1⁄2 to 2 barleycorns, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 barleycorns.

The barleycorn is a former English unit of length equal to ​1⁄3 of an inch (i.

A cocoon found among barleycorns in a commercially available bag of barley.

The notion of three barleycorns composing an inch certainly predates this statute, however, appearing.

Synonyms:

grain, common barley, caryopsis, Hordeum vulgare,

Antonyms:

bigness, largeness,