The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour.
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Barleycorn
/ˈbɑː(ɹ)liˌkɔː(ɹ)n/
Synonyms for "barleycorn" (1 found)
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This trip to Italy has actually enlarged the diameter of my head thirteen barleycorns!
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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.
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