WordNet
n. a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar [syn: barley candy]
Usage examples of "barley-sugar".
And with the saff oil and letter to Chivalry, I defiantly sent barley-sugar sticks, with the request that he ration them out so that no one suffered from bellyaches.
Zellaby let him go on playing with it for a bit, and then produced a piece of barley-sugar, and traded it for the return of his box, still unopened.
Zellaby thereupon put another piece of barley-sugar in the box, closed it, and presently handed it to him again.
Gavril glanced up and saw one of the tall barley-sugar chimney stacks wavering, starting to topple down above the boy's head.
And they did seem to like it very much, almost as much as the lumps of barley-sugar Mama sometimes took them, as a treat.
By noon bell, she'd acquired a grand total of three pennies, a marble dropped in by a solemn-faced child, a little bag of barley-sugar candy added by a young girl, a bit of yellow ribbon, and at least a dozen pins.