Rye vs Yre - What's the difference?
rye | yre |
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
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Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
* {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When their father and mother beheld them weep and lament still, they doubled their sorrowes and griefes, but full of yre and forced with Envy, they tooke their voyage homeward, devising the slaughter and destruction of their sister. }}
As nouns the difference between rye and yre
is that rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while yre is .rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)
Derived terms
* ryegrassAnagrams
* English three-letter wordsyre
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