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The barleycorn is an English unit of length [1] equal to 1 ⁄ 3 of an inch ... the actual length of a kernel of barley varies from as short as 0.16–0.28 in (4–7 ...
It is ordained that 3 grains of barley dry and round do make an inch, 12 inches make 1 foot, 3 feet make 1 yard, 5 yards and a half make a perch, and 40 perches in length and 4 in breadth make an acre. [2] [3]: 277 A similar statement is made in Liber Horn (as published in The Statutes of the Realm):
Inch: 25.4 mm: 3 barleycorns (the historical legal definition) Nail (cloth) 57.15 mm: 3 digits = 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches = 1 ⁄ 16 yard Palm: 76.2 mm: 3 inches Hand: 101.6 mm: 4 inches Shaftment: 165 mm or 152 mm: Width of the hand and outstretched thumb, 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches before 12th century, 6 thereafter [14] Link: 201.2 mm: 7.92 inches or one ...
Barley straw has been placed in mesh bags and floated in fish ponds or water gardens to help prevent algal growth without harming pond plants and animals. The technique's effectiveness is at best mixed. [84] Barley grains were once used for measurement in England, there being nominally three or four barleycorns to the inch. [85]
A grain of barley; Barleycorn (unit) a unit of length, equal to one-third of an inch; Barleycorn (surname) The Barleycorn, an Irish traditional music band "John Barleycorn", a traditional British folk-song; John Barleycorn, by Jack London
The new pound used a barley-corn grain, rather than a wheat grain. [29] Avoirdupois (goods of weight) refers to those things measured by the lesser but quicker balances: the bismar or auncel, the Roman balance, and the steelyard. The original mercantile pound of 25 shillings or 15 (Tower) ounces was displaced by, variously, the pound of the ...
Foxtail barley is distinguished from cultivated barley (H. vulgare L.) and Meadow barley (H. brachyantherum) by length of awns in the lemma. H. brachyantherum has awn lengths of 0.5 inches (1.3 cm); Foxtail barley has lengths of 0.5–3 inches (1.3–7.6 cm); and cultivated barley of 10–15 centimetres (3.9–5.9 in) in length. Once foxtail ...
Butler observed, however, that "[a]s the length of the barley-corn cannot be fixed, so the inch according to this method will be uncertain", noting that a standard inch measure was now [i.e. by 1843] kept in the Exchequer chamber, Guildhall, and that was the legal definition of the inch.