To cry barley. To ask for truce (in children’s games). Query, a corruption of parley.
“A proper lad oʹ his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie.”—Sir W. Scott: Waverley, xiii.
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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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