Distance -- 3 barleycorns 1 inch, 12 inches 1 foot. 3 feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
The weight of a meah, which is also called a gerah, is sixteen barleycorns. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Now a selaa, in his weight, weighed three hundred and eighty-four barleycorns. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
In England, in early days, it was defined as a measure of length consisting of 12 inches, or 36 barleycorns laid end to end. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
But barleycorns differ in length as well as the human foot, so the standard adopted is without any real foundation or reason. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
It cannot surely be understood of six barleycorns, for it could not be the custom of Boaz to give a present of six grains of barley. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Unfortunately, since barleycorns are all mashed, boiled, and fermented with yeast, beer can't really be considered a whole grain; and since I don't eat rice, this new barley is helping me in my daily efforts to remain regular. From Wordnik.com. [Barley Legal - Beef Barley Soup] Reference
They were interrupted by another dance being called for, and then, his fingers tapping about upon the keys as mechanically as fowls pecking at barleycorns, Christopher gave himself up with a curious and far from unalloyed pleasure to the occupation of watching Ethelberta, now again crossing the field of his vision like a returned comet whose characteristics were becoming purely historical. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Second, for readers who like myself weigh things in barleycorns rather than MeV/c. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Aesop's Fables; a new translation] Reference
It is said that we Scots, when there was such a nation in existence, have, among our full peck of virtues, one or two little barleycorns of vice. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Väinämöinen finds some barleycorns in the sand on the shore, and fells the forest, leaving only a birch-tree as a resting-place for the birds (257-264). From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
It was not a sumptuous repast, the staple being a haggis, also broth with chunks of meat and barleycorns floating in it, the meat in strings by force of boiling. From Wordnik.com. [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference
The Queen ate the barleycorns, and sure enough after nine months she bore the most charming, lovely, splendid Prince that ever was seen, who was called Lionheart, because he was so brave and so strong. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Punjab] Reference
At last an old fakîr, or devotee, coming to the palace, asked to see the Queen, and giving her some barleycorns, told her to eat them and cease weeping, for in nine months she would have a beautiful little son. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Punjab] Reference
He would give the number of poles, yards, feet, inches and barleycorns in a given distance -- say the diameter of the earth's orbit -- and in every calculation he would produce the true answer in less time than ninety-nine out of a hundred men would take with their pens. From Wordnik.com. [A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)] Reference
At length the line was again formed, and the inspection being over, it broke up once more, and the minute red fragments presently vanished altogether like a nest of ants, the guns, looking like so many barleycorns, under the long lines of barracks, that looked no bigger than houses in a child's toy. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
But so miserably was she and the whole family impoverished, that "Rabban Jochanan Ben Zaccahi saw her gathering barleycorns out of the dung of the Arabs 'cattle: saith he to her. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
And the weight of an assar is four barleycorns. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
• 190,080 barleycorns. From Wordnik.com. [Long May You Run] Reference
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