Barley-broth; that is, malt liquor brewed from barley (Scotch).
“The cock may craw, the day may daw,
And aye weʹll taste the barley-bree.”
Burns: Willie Brewʹd a Peck oʹ Maut.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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