barleybrake

English

Alternative forms

• barleybrakes
• barleybreak
• barleybreaks

Noun

barleybrake (uncountable)

1. An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley or other grain, in which some players attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barleybrake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• barleybreak