barleycorn

«barleycorn» in Mova's school dictionary: one grain of barley, a tiny seed from the barley plant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (barleycorns)

meaning for a pupil

1) A barleycorn is one grain of barley, a tiny seed from the barley plant. tree →

2) An old unit of length, about a third of an inch, used in old measuring. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a single grain stands for something very small or very precious, as when a fairy asks for only one barleycorn in place of jewels.

examples

• One barleycorn is a tiny grain of barley. tree →
• The hen pecked up every barleycorn in the yard. tree →
• The fairy said she would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels. tree →

note

nothing for maths; a count of barleycorns is just a count of single grains.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «barleycorn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.