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See also: barley-water
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barley water (countable and uncountable, plural barley waters)
- (British) A soft drink made by boiling pearl barley with water, and adding flavouring and sugar.
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- Large quantities of barley water were consumed constantly, but in the old days, a special boy was kept to run out for beer.
- (medicine, archaic) A decoction of barley used as a nutritive and demulcent.