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bere.

Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɪə/UK/bɪɚ/US
  1. Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.

    Scotland · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.

noun/bɪə/UK/bɛə/UK/bɪɚ/US/bɛɚ/US
  1. A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere.

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

See bear (“pillowcase”)

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