barn

[Barn]

A barn is an outbuilding on a farm used to keep animals or crops safe and dry. A farmer might store hay in the upper part of a barn, and have stalls for horses in the main section.

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A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

Noun
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

Noun
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter


n.
A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

v. t.
To lay up in a barn.

n.
A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.


Barn

Barn , n. [OE. bern, AS. berern, bern; bere barley + ern, '91rn, a close place. 92. See Barley.] A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zo'94l.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zo'94l.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.

Barn

Barn, v. t. To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] Shak.
Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

Barn

Barn, n. A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

To lay up in a barn.

A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

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Usage Examples

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

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