Usually means: Traditional unit of length measurement.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. barleycorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. barleycorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barleycorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barleycorn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barleycorn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barleycorn, barleycorn: Wordnik
  7. barleycorn: Wiktionary
  8. barleycorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. barleycorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barleycorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Barleycorn, barleycorn: Dictionary.com
  12. Barleycorn (unit), Barleycorn, The Barleycorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Barleycorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. barleycorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. barleycorn: Rhymezone
  16. Barleycorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. barleycorn: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. Barleycorn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. barleycorn: FreeDictionary.org
  20. barleycorn: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. barleycorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. barleycorn: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Barleycorn: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barleycorn: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Barleycorn: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

(Note: See barleycorns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (barleycorn)

noun:  (agriculture) A grain of barley.
noun:  (obsolete) The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes.
noun:  (architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two moldings.

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