Definition of "barley-meal" []

• Meal or flour made from barley. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Send the maiden out to join her father, for the lustral water stands there ready, and barley-meal to scatter with the hand on the cleansing flame, and heifers to be slain in honour of the goddess Artemis, to usher in the marriage, their black blood spouting from them."
• "Calchas, the seer, shall rue beginning the sacrifice with his barley-meal and lustral water."
• "He himself coasted along the island to Methymna and ordered a supply of barley-meal and other provisions, intending, if he were long detained, to make Lesbos his head-quarters while attacking Chios."