noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barley sugar
barley water
barley wine
pearl barley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
malted
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There it is added to the fuel in the kilns where the malted barley is dried.
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For dark beers such as stout, the malted barley is roasted until it is dark brown, almost black.
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You had to throw the malted barley up against the screen.
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Then a wort, or tea, is made by cooking the malted barley in boiling water.
■ NOUN
sugar
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Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar .
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He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar .
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The assistants know what they are doing, and never try to sell you barley sugar on the way out.
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The castle looks as if it is twirled out of barley sugar .
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A fine oak staircase with barley sugar bannisters leads out of the stone flagged hall and the south-east facing sitting-room is panelled.
water
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The meal then followed and all had their fill of sausage rolls and crisps, washed down with delicious barley water .
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It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century.
winter
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Although some winter barley growers jumped he gun last week, little was cut as crops were not fit.
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John Sluggett, who farms near Probus, mid-Cornwall, says he will be at least a week before starting on winter barley .
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A little further south, early winter-drilled wheats looks good, but later-drilled crops extremely patchy and winter barley showing signs of disease.
■ VERB
grow
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Erdinger contracts with local farmers to grow some of its barley and all of its wheat, and provides them with seed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add barley and simmer for another 30 minutes.
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After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley .
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Good quality barley is making £151 a tonne so, not unnaturally, both farmers and merchants are rubbing their hands.
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It is made by taking barley berries and soaking them in water.
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Judy told me she was picking up a load of barley in East Grand Forks.
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Other grains present are rye and barley malt, which also contribute flavour.
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Remove barley mixture from heat, and let stand 5 minutes.
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You know, the skin rubbed off with carrying the barley .