barleymeal

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English

Etymology

From barley +‎ meal.

Noun

barleymeal (usually uncountable, plural barleymeals)

Any type of meal or flour prepared from barley.
- 1712, John Moncrief, “For pain of the Sides”, in Tippermalluch's receits, being a collection of many useful and easy remedies for most distempers:
  A Cataplasm made of Goats dung: Wax and dung kned together, applyed. Of Barley-meal, Melilot and husks of Chesbows, sodden amongst Mulse.
- 1870, “Calendar of agriculture”, in The Farmer's Magazine‎, page 366:
  When begun to be weaned, about the end of 16 weeks, give in racks in the calf pens, young vetches, bruised cake, beans, and barleymeals boiled, and linseed jellies.
- 1911, Sir Robert Hutchison, Food and the Principles of Dietetics‎, page 227:
  When mixed with half its weight of good wheat flour, however, barleymeal can be converted into good enough loaves.
- 2010, Margaret Powell, Health Care in Japan‎:
  In the army, however, highranking surgeons stuck to the theories emanating from Germany that beriberi was an infectious disease and thus would not concede the obviously beneficial affects of the mixed rice and barleymeal diet in the prevention of the disease.

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