rye

Meanings

1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
3. Ellipsis of rye bread.
4. Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain.
5. A drink (serving) of rye whiskey.
6. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
7. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
8. A disease of hawks.
9. A young man.

1. A small town and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9220).
2. A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7750).
3. A river in North Yorkshire, England, that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.
4. A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
7. A census-designated place in Cleveland County, Arkansas.
8. A small statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
9. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.
10. A ghost town in Adair County, Missouri.
11. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
12. A coastal suburban city in Westchester County, New York.

Etymology

From Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.