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rye¹ Definition

rye ()

noun

  1. a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale) widely grown for its grain and straw
  2. the grain or seeds of this plant, used for making flour and whiskey, and as feed for livestock
  3. ☆ whiskey distilled wholly or chiefly from this grain
  4. rye bread

Etymology: ME < OE ryge, akin to Ger roggen < IE base *wrughyo-, rye > Lith rugỹs, rye grain

rye² Definition

rye ()

noun

a Gypsy man or gentleman

Etymology: see Romany rye

rye Synonyms

rye

n.

cereal, grass, grain, feed; see grain 1.

Varieties of rye grass include: fall, spring, winter, spurred, Wallachian, Michel.

rye Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • grow: I defy the Italians to grow worse rye than this.
  • include: Foods to avoid Gluten is a protein found in wheat and also in a number of other cereals including rye and barley.
  • eat: Poor people ate rye or barley bread and porridge and soups made of barley and oats.
  • use: Svo said that he used rye somehow in his ink.
  • follow: The result is that we tend to have fewer weeds in crops following a rye green manure.
  • have: Unfortunately we have no rye to sell from this year's harvest.

Adjective modifier

  • perennial: Nitrogen rates will vary with sward composition, with perennial rye swards more hungry than traditional bents and fescues.
  • light: Hazelnut Rye A medium rustic sour with wheat, light rye, hazelnuts.

Modifies a noun

  • crispbread: However, the flour can be used for baking rye crispbreads, or the flaked grain used in health foods.
  • mead: RYE MEADS Highlights: This site showed itself to be the most reliable place to see Turtle Doves in the county.
  • whiskey: In 1870, the cocktail was changed when American rye whiskey was substituted for the cognac.
  • bread: Serve with 2 x 25g slices of rye bread per person.
  • cracker: Carrot soup and crackers 1 small can carrot soup with 2 rye crackers.
  • grass: Fine quality turf has little or no rye grass.

Noun used with modifier

  • grazing: The only option remaining to give reliably satisfactory results is field beans, although you may get results from grazing rye in milder areas.
  • %: Rye Whiskey - Whiskey typically from North America made from at least 51 % rye.
  • dwarf: Paths and lawns receiving heavy use Grass seed with or without dwarf rye grass and nominated for general use.
  • seed: Rotational and non-rotational set-aside supported higher densities and more species of birds than fields of wheat, brassicas, root crops and seed rye.

Preposition: in

  • area: The only option remaining to give reliably satisfactory results is field beans, although you may get results from grazing rye in milder areas.

Preposition: from

  • stall: I had cheese and salami on rye from a mobile stall on the edge of the market.
rye Quotes

So bye, bye, Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levee But the levee was dry. Them good old boys was drinkin' whiskeyand rye Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die.'

—McLean, Don

Anyway,I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's aroundönobody big, I meanö except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the clifföI mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro'the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

—Burns, Robert

Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry, Went across the border to get a drink of rye. When the rye was opened, theYanks began to sing, 'God bless America, but God save the King!'

—Anonymous

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