barleycorns

Weevils, almost as many as there were barleycorns.

The Melons, Beans, and Barleycorns were listening to all they said.

Shoe sizes in Britain are measure in barleycorns, which is equal to a third of an inch.

A flood of barleycorns spilled out.

They ended up with four Barleycorns, two Melons, and two Beans.

Anglo Saxon inch, 3 barleycorns.

The statute definition of an inch was three barleycorns, although by the 19th century, this had been superseded by standard inch measures.

According to a longstanding tradition, 1 carat (the mass of a carob seed) was equivalent to the weight of 4 wheat grains or 3 barleycorns.

Barley grains were used for measurement in England, there being three or four barleycorns to the inch and four or five poppy seeds to the barleycorn.

Classical statements, such as that an Etzba was seven barleycorns laid side by side, or that a Log was equal to six medium-sized eggs, are so indefinite and vague as to be nearly useless.

The king gives a festival, inviting everyone, and the witch sends off the husband with her younger daughter, throws a potful of barleycorns in the hearth, and tells the older stepdaughter that if she does not pick barleycorns from ashes, it will be worse for her.