Bere

According to the Old English Dictionary:

bere

barley. Dele first passage, and add :-- Sixecge bere exaticum(cf. hoc exaticum byge (ex guinque panibus hordiaciis, Jn. R. 6, 13. Hláfas of bere (bero, L. 9. Mid onlegene of wearmum bere. Lch. ii. 82, 15. Beras ordea, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 84, 6. v. gafol-, lencten-bere. bere

Related words: beów), i. 233, 62), Wrt. Voc. ii. 144., 58. Bere is swíðe earfoðe tó gearcígenne, and þeáhhwæðere fét done mann, þonne hé gearo bið, Hml. Th. i. 188, 4. Horse mete is bere, Hml. S. 3, 216. Gebúr sceal syllan .xxiii. systra beres, Ll. Th. i. 434, II. Genim beánmela oððe ǽtena oððe beres, Lch. ii. 84, 5 : 82, 24. Of fíf hláfum beres (bere, L. )