bere meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

bere

noun

UK /bɪə/ · US /bɪɚ/

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.

Scotland Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.

Derived terms: beremeal

bere

noun

UK /bɛə/ · US /bɛɚ/

Etymology See bear (“pillowcase”)

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]'1976, Essex Record Office, Publications:
[...] he'd tossed me an extra pillow in a bere.2014 April 1, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

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