barleycorns's Usage Examples:

pennyweights, and each pennyweight into 24 barleycorns.

There were thus 480 barleycorns to a Tower ounce, 5760 barleycorns to a Tower pound of 350 g.

1⁄2 to 2⁄3 in or 1+1⁄2 to 2 barleycorns, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 barleycorns.

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The notion of three barleycorns composing an inch certainly predates this statute, however, appearing.

3 barleycorns (Med.

old Tower pound came out to exactly 5,400 Troy grains (also known as barleycorns), the Tower pennyweight 22+1⁄2 Troy grains (and thus approximately 1.

sends off the husband with her younger daughter, throws a potful of barleycorns in the hearth, and tells the older stepdaughter that if she does not.

line was eventually decimalized as 1⁄10 of an inch, without recourse to barleycorns.

1 Inch = Span of 6 Barley corns side by side by thickness, although barleycorns are not a reliable standard of measurement.

three or four barleycorns to the inch and four or five poppy seeds to the barleycorn.

The statute definition of an inch was three barleycorns, although by.

nor allow others to use: Insofar as the dog neither itself eats the barleycorns, nor allows the horse to".

of a carob seed) was equivalent to the weight of 4 wheat grains or 3 barleycorns.

Digit 3⁄4 inch Finger 7⁄8 inch Inch 3 barleycorns (the historical legal definition) Nail 3 digits = 2+1⁄4 inches = 1⁄16.

A cocoon found among barleycorns in a commercially available bag of barley.

Classical definitions, such as that an etzba was seven barleycorns laid side by side, or that a log was equal to six medium-sized eggs,.

Edward I or II, notionally continued to derive English units from three barleycorns "dry and round" to the inch and this statute remained in force until.

of measure to multiples of 2, 3 or 5, for example there were 6 she (barleycorns) in a shu-si (finger) and 30 shu-si in a kush (cubit).

example, in 1324 Edward II defined the inch as being the length of three barleycorns and since 1889 the kilogram has been defined as being the mass of the.

1324 Edward II systematized units of length by defining the inch as 3 barleycorns, the foot as 12 inches, the yard as 3 feet, the perch as 51⁄2 yards,.

Synonyms:

grain; common barley; caryopsis; Hordeum vulgare;

Antonyms:

bigness; largeness;