Barleycorn
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Barleycorn may mean:
- a grain of barleyBarleyBarley is a major cereal grain, a member of the grass family. It serves as a major animal fodder, as a base malt for beer and certain distilled beverages, and as a component of various health foods...
- English unit of length equal to 1/3 inchInchAn inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot...
- Barleycorn (group), an Irish music group
- "John BarleycornJohn Barleycorn"John Barleycorn" is an English folksong. The character of John Barleycorn in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky...
", an ancient folksong - Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn BarberEdward Thaddeus Barleycorn BarberEdward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber was born on 1 July 1865 in the Spanish colonized capital city of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando Po in West Africa....
- William BarleycornWilliam BarleycornWilliam Napolean Barleycorn , born in Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea and a Fernandino of Igbo descent, was Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po in Africa, about 1880. From there, he traveled to Edinburgh University...
, a Primitive Methodist missionary in Fernando Po - John Barleycorn (novel)John Barleycorn (novel)John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn".- Themes :...
by writer Jack LondonJack LondonJohn Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...