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bere

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/bɪə/(UK)
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/bɪə/(UK) · /bɪɚ/(US) · /bɛə/(UK) · /bɛɚ/(US)

Definition of bere

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Scotland, uncountable)Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
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noun

  1. (Scotland, uncountable)Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
  2. (dialectal)A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere.
    “Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'”
    “[...] he'd tossed me an extra pillow in a bere.”

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Etymology

From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.

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