sprat-barleyn.
A species of barley, Hordeum zeocriton, with short broad ears and long awns.
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polbere1440
bigg1446
long-ear?1523
sprat-barley?1523
waybent1538
wall barley1548
barley-bigg1552
bigg-barley1562
polbarley1574
pilled barley1578
way bennet1578
wheat-barley1578
French barley1596
way barley1597
rough bere1642
palm-barley1706
Scotch barley1707
square barleya1722
Thor-barley1755
ware-bere1793
barley-grass1795
German rice1828
battledore barley1848
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv There be thre maner of barleis,..sprot barley, longe-eyre, and bere barley... Sprot barley hath a flat eyre moost commenly [etc.].
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 90 There is not onely the ordinary Barly, but also Big Sprat-Barly, which hath lately been sowen in Kent with good profit.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 240 If the Land be rank, [they sow it] with that they call sprat-Barly.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 133 The common allowance of Seed is four Bushels to an Acre, though they say that three Bushels of Sprat Barley will do.
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Antiq. 15 Sprack-Barley has formerly been pretty much sown in the rich Land in the Marshes.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 314 Barley is apt to lodge, which ruins the seeds, except sprat or battle-door barley is sown.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 38 Sprat, or Battledore Barley..has been sown with success in wet and dry grounds.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 699 H. zeocriton, Sprat or Battledore Barley.
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