Definitions for Rye

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Rye rye

Spelling: [rahy]

IPA: /raɪ/

Rye is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Rye (ery).

Definitions for Rye

noun

1. a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets.
2. the seeds or grain of this plant, used for making flour and whiskey, and as a livestock feed.
3. rye bread.
4. a straight whiskey distilled from a mash containing 51 percent or more rye grain.
5. Northeastern U.S. and Canada. a blended whiskey.
6. a male Gypsy.
7. a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.

adjective

1. made with rye grain or flour:

Origin of Rye

before 900; Middle English; Old English ryge; cognate with Old Norse rūgr; akin to Dutch rogge, German Roggen

Examples for Rye

But the aristocracy did not sow this piece with rye, I suppose?

rye whiskey has had a tough go of it, and Prohibition and two World Wars certainly didn't help.

Ask your local liquor store and bar for rye, and if they don't have it ask them to order it.

The rye was reaped, the wheat and oats were harvested, and the flax was pulled.

There was rye whisky, there was gin, and there was some sort of French brandy.

Then I shall scream with all my might: ‘Keep away from my rye!’

If you'll tell me their names I'll tell you where to find them, for I know everybody in rye.

The family lived on Park Avenue and in rye, New York, summered on Lake George and had servants in the home.

“I have purchased hundreds of barrels of rye and bourbon from them,” John Bernasconi admits when asked about the Indiana factory.

From cognac to bourbon, rye to añejo tequila, many of our beloved spirits spend years aging in wooden casks.