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Brewer's: Barley
To cry barley. To ask for truce (in children's games). Query, a corruption of parley.
“A proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzïe.” —Sir W. Scott: Waverley ,
xiii.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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