barleycorn
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Is barleycorn a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (agriculture) A grain of barley.Examples: "The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour."
2. (obsolete) The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes.Examples: "This trip to Italy has actually enlarged the diameter of my head thirteen barleycorns!"; "Then shewed the devil the booke unto the friar, and the friar saw it was an uncut unique of incalculable value; the height of it was half a cubit and the breadth of it the fourth part of a cubit and the thickness of it five barleycorns lacking the space of three horsehairs."obsolete
3. (architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two moldings.
Definition source: Wiktionary