Use this free online calculator to convert Barleycorn to Gry instantly. This all length conversions conversion tool provides accurate results for all your measurement needs.

Quick Reference

1 Barleycorn = 40.1574 Gry

1 Gry = 0.024902 Barleycorn

Barleycorn to Gry Conversion Formula

To convert Barleycorn to Gry, multiply by 40.1574.

Gry = Barleycorn × 40.1574

Barleycorn = Gry × 0.024902

To convert Gry back to Barleycorn, divide by 40.1574 (or multiply by 0.024902).

About These Units

About Barleycorn

The Barleycorn is an old English unit of length. The custom of using seeds as units of length or weight is very common in farming societies. In Anglo-Saxon England, where barley was a basic crop, barleycorns played this traditional role. The weight of a barleycorn, later renamed the grain, is the original basis of all English weight systems including the older troy system and the later avoirdupois system. As a length unit, 3 barleycorns were equal to the Saxon ynce (inch). The English foot was actually defined as 12 of these ynces, that is, as 36 barleycorns.

About Gry

The gry is a proposed unit of distance in the English traditional system. The name was first used in June 1679 by the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) as a unit equal to 0.001 foot, 0.01 inch, or 0.1 line in a decimalized distance system. (Thomas Jefferson, who was very familiar with Lockes writings, later proposed a similar system in the U.S., but he called 0.001 foot a point rather than a gry.) In 1813, the gry was revived in another decimal measurement scheme in Britain. All these ideas failed, but the gry had some limited use in the nineteenth century as a unit equal to 0.1 line or 1/120 inch (0.211 667 millimeter). Long forgotten, the gry recently came back into the limelight in connection with a puzzle, circulating on the Internet, which asked for three English words ending in -gry. The word "gry" is from the ancient Greek, where it meant "a trifling amount".

Barleycorn to Gry Conversion Table

Barleycorn	Gry	Gry	Barleycorn
0.1	4.0157	0.1	2.490e-3
0.5	20.0787	0.5	0.012451
1	40.1574	1	0.024902
2	80.3148	2	0.049804
5	200.7871	5	0.124510
10	401.5742	10	0.249020
20	803.1483	20	0.498040
25	1003.94	25	0.622550
50	2007.87	50	1.2451
100	4015.74	100	2.4902
250	10039.35	250	6.2255
500	20078.71	500	12.4510
1000	40157.42	1000	24.9020

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