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(chiefly Scotland) Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. examples
plural beres
(now dialectal) A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere. quotations examples
Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'
1976, Essex Record Office, Publications
[...] he'd tossed me an extra pillow in a bere.
2014 April 1, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, Atlantic Books