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nounhardy 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
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nounwhiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
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nounthe seed of the cereal grasspart of:
Definition that contains rye
- cereal grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
- reuben a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread
- bourbon whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels
- rye whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- wringer a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed
- pumpernickel bread made of coarse rye flour
- mangle clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- kvass fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley
- jewish rye bread (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds
- elymus canadensis North American wild rye