rye
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- n the seed of the cereal grass
- n hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
- n whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- Said one Chicago grain trader last week, "There's a lot of funny business going on in the rye market.
- In the wartime rye marketthe one grain on which there were no ceilingsthe sky was the limit on the wild speculation.
- Famed for their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July.