barleycorns'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.

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.

sends off the husband with her younger daughter, throws a potful of barleycorns in the hearth, and tells the older stepdaughter that if she does not.

example, in 1324 Edward II defined the inch as being the length of three barleycorns and since 1889 the kilogram has been defined as being the mass of the.

Synonyms:

grain, common barley, caryopsis, Hordeum vulgare,

Antonyms:

bigness, largeness,