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Meanings of rye in English
Hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement.
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1
The rye which they were eating in soup was its principal cause.
2
The poor folk rarely got it; they lived on rye or meal.
3
Much ado to get in the rye, and the flax half spoiled.
4
On the sloping sides grew the golden corn and the tall rye.
5
The scent of green rye soaked in sunshine came like a sickness.
6
German rye bread or pumpernickel, available from most delis in vacuum packs.
7
Drain the rye berries and return them to the rice cooker bowl.
8
Wash the rye bread when taking from the oven with warm water.
9
It covers the ground from the sprouting rye to the Potter's Field.
10
Crusts of rye bread were browned, ground, and boiled; this was coffee.
11
Then there was threshing, and the sowing of winter wheat and rye.
12
He cannot even command the price of a penitential three-fingers of rye.
13
She gave the woman the rye, and made change for her nickel.
14
In England corn means wheat, or sometimes rye or barley or oats.
15
There were long strips of rye and clover and pale green corn.
16
To hamper them further he set about enchanting the stalks of rye.
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