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Answer for the clue "John ", 10 letters:
barleycorn
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Word definitions for barleycorn in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Barcleycorn is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Barleycorn (1891–1978), Equatoguinean politician Napoleon Barleycorn , Primitive Methodist missionary William Barleycorn (1848–1925), Primitive Methodist missionary
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A grain of barley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from barley + corn (n.). Perhaps to distinguish the barley plant or the grain from its products. In Britain and U.S., the grain is used mainly to prepare liquor, hence personification as John Barleycorn (1620) in popular ballad, and many now-obsolete ...
Usage examples of barleycorn.
This is the good Gumbo himself starting the new day, May the first, the day of fertility, with a wish that John Barleycorn keeps on rising.
He had a back-up map available, thank Barleycorn, but it would take a while to access it.
Juniper Suction is all about how Barleycorn kidnapped some young girl called Persephone, okay?
John Barleycorn is one of the oldest stories, and one of the most popular.
Her husband, John Barleycorn, had given her pomegranate seeds to swallow, nine in number.
If Coyote really was a part of the plant world now, I had the feeling that he could maybe take us to Barleycorn in his new state.
John Barleycorn was going to regret his intrusion into my family and my city.
John Barleycorn said, now moving through the verdant growth like a slow, cool warrior.
Sherlock Holmes and the Famous Five and King Lear and Mickey Mouse and Joseph K and the Venus de Milo and Dick Dastardly and Mutley and Holly Golightly, I was also aware of the John Barleycorn figure turning around to ease my Shadow-flesh through the clutches of a network of story-blades.
I followed Barleycorn through the gates out onto the streets of Moss Side.
And whilst walking along these dreamt-about streets I took the chance to examine this body of smoke that Barleycorn had fashioned for me.
Knowing inside that now I had a dark place of my own that Barleycorn could never reach.
Maybe Barleycorn had planned for me a trip through the real-world story as pictured in the dream.
He made no comment as Barleycorn led me to the foot of a flight of stairs.
The rabbit looked very sad to be saying this, and Barleycorn was equally worried.