barleymeal
barleymeal noun: any type of meal or flour prepared from barley; especially, that from ordinary two-row barley.
Noun
barleymeal (usually uncountable, plural barleymeals)
- 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.1712, John Moncrief, “For pain of the Sides”, in Tippermalluch's receits, being a collection of many useful and easy remedies for most distempers
- 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.1870, “Calendar of agriculture”, in The Farmer's Magazine, page 366
Forms of barleymeal
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Origin of barleymeal
From barley + meal.
Questions about barleymeal
- What does barleymeal mean?
- Barleymeal means any type of meal or flour prepared from barley; especially, that from ordinary two-row barley.
- What part of speech is barleymeal?
- Barleymeal is a noun.
- What is the plural of barleymeal?
- The plural of barleymeal is barleymeals.
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