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barleymeal

noun

Etymology

From barley + meal.

  1. derived from *meh₁-✻ — “to measure”
  2. inherited from *mēlą✻
  3. inherited from *māl✻
  4. inherited from mǣl — “measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”
  5. inherited from mel
  6. compounded as barleymeal — “barley + meal”

Definitions

  1. Any type of meal or flour prepared from barley

    Any type of meal or flour prepared from barley; especially, that from ordinary two-row barley.

    • A Cataplasm made of Goats dung: Wax and dung kned together, applyed. Of Barley-meal, Melilot and husks of Chesbows, sodden amongst Mulse.
    • When begun to be weaned, about the end of 16 weeks, give in racks in the calf pens, young vetches, bruised cake, beans, and barleymeals boiled, and linseed jellies.
    • When mixed with half its weight of good wheat flour, however, barleymeal can be converted into good enough loaves.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA