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rye (noun sense 1 andnoun sense 2)
rye (noun sense 1, enlarged to show texture
rye (noun sense 3)
rye (noun sense 4 andnoun sense 5)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishrye,rie, fromOld Englishryġe, fromProto-West Germanic*rugi, fromProto-Germanic*rugiz.

Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisianrogge,Low GermanRogg,GermanRoggen,Rocken,Old Norserugr (Danishrug,Swedishråg); non-Germanic cognates includeRussianрожь(rožʹ) andLatvianrudzi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rye (countable anduncountable,pluralryes)

  2. Agrain used extensively in Europe for makingbread,beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
    Hypernyms:cereal,grain,corn
    Coordinate terms:wheat,barley,maize,corn(maize sense)
    They bought a sack ofrye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
  4. ThegrassSecale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
    This field will be planted torye next spring.
  6. (uncountable, countable)Ellipsis ofrye bread. [from 19th c.]
    Hypernyms:bread <food
    Coordinate terms:white,wheat,pumpernickel
    Customer: A tuna sandwich, please.Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, orrye?
  8. (US, Canada, uncountable, countable)Ellipsis ofryewhiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain. [from 19th c.]
    He likes any whiskey, but his favorite isrye.
    • 1925,John Dos Passos,Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London:Harper & Brothers,→OCLC, 2nd section,page146:
      “Gimme a shot ofrye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant.
    • 1939,Raymond Chandler,The Big Sleep, Penguin, published2011, page159:
      I bought a pint ofrye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
    • 1971, “American Pie”, inAmerican Pie‎[1], performed byDon McLean:
      Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ’nrye/Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die."
  10. (US, Canada, countable) A drink (serving) of rye whiskey.
    I'll have arye, neat, please.
    • 1946,George Johnston,Skyscrapers in the Mist, page17:
      It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a fewryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.
  11. (loosely, sometimes proscribed)Caraway(from the mistakenassumption that thewhole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
  12. (loosely, sometimes proscribed)Ryegrass, any of the species ofLolium.
  14. Adisease ofhawks.
    • 1486, Juliana Berners,Book of Saint Albans:
      And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith theRy. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt.
    • 1618, Symon Latham,Latham's Falconry:
      Of all the diseases that belongs to these Hawkes, there bee onely three that they bee most subiect vnto, which is theRye, the Crampe, and the Craye.

Coordinate terms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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the grassSecale cereale or its grains as food
rye whisky—seerye whisky
rye bread—seerye bread
carraway—seecarraway
ryegrass—seeryegrass

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Japanese

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Romanization

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rye

  1. Thekatakana syllableリェ(rye) inHepburn romanization.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Englishryġe, fromProto-West Germanic*rugi, fromProto-Germanic*rugiz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rye (pluralryes)

  1. rye(Secale cereale or itsgrain)

Descendants

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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rye f (definite singularrya,indefinite pluralryer,definite pluralryene)

  1. rya

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