Rye

//ɹaɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A small town and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9220).
  2. 2
    A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7750).
  3. 3
    A river in North Yorkshire, England, that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.
  4. 4
    A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Cleveland County, Arkansas.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A small statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Adair County, Missouri.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A coastal suburban city in Westchester County, New York.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A large town in Westchester County, New York.
  8. 13
    A coastal suburb in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
  9. 14
    A surname.
  10. 15
    A nickname of the given name Ryan.
Noun
  1. 1
    A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. countable, uncountable

    "They bought a sack of rye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking."

  2. 2
    whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt wordnet
  3. 3
    The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. countable, uncountable

    "This field will be planted to rye next spring."

  4. 4
    hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement wordnet
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of rye bread. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

    "Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?"

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  1. 6
    the seed of the cereal grass wordnet
  2. 7
    Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain. Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

    "He likes any whiskey, but his favorite is rye."

  3. 8
    A drink (serving) of rye whiskey. Canada, US, countable

    "I'll have a rye, neat, please."

  4. 9
    Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself) broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
  5. 10
    Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium. broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
  6. 11
    A disease of hawks. countable, uncountable

    "And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith the Ry. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.

Etymology 2

* As an English surname, variant of Rea. * Also as an English surname, from the noun rye. * As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads whose name derive from Old Norse rjóðr (“forest clearing”); see the verb ryðja (“to clear”). * As a Danish surname, from the town Ry in Skanderbord. * The town in England is perhaps derived from Old English riþ (“river, stream”) whence also rith; compare ree.

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