Barn
[bɑːn] or [bɑrn]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Pierre
Definition
n. a building in which grain hay &c. are stored.—v.t. to store in a barn.—ns. and adjs. Barn′-door Barn′-yard as in barn-yard fowl.—n. Barn′-owl the commonest of British owls.—Barn-door in cricket used of a player who blocks every ball: humorously any large target.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity. If empty, the reverse may be expected.
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Examples
- The hay smelled good and lying in a barn in the hay took away all the years in between. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The murdered woman,--more a match for the man, certainly, in point of years--was found dead in a barn near Hounslow Heath. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In some cases a car can be used which can be run down grade into the barn in front of the cattle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Must I keep my corn in the barn, to feed and increase the breed of rats? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I'll go up and look at the barn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- By-and-by, after an anxious search, his father found him sitting in a nest he had made in the barn, filled with goose-eggs and hens' eggs he had collected, trying to hatch them out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We ought to lie up in the barn, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Thus, in every farm, the offals of the barn and stable will maintain a certain number of poultry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming Out between the columns. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My dear creature, she actually rowed it over the river, put it on her head, and marched up to the barn to the utter amazement of the old man! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- O, he's coming; but thy Mary caught him as I came in, and ran off with him to the barn, to show him to the children. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then there was a valley that no one held except for a fascist post in a farmhouse with its outbuildings and its barn that they had fortified. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is the rustiest old barn in heathendom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bill passed, however, with a clause that empty houses, barns, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A great many farmers are building over bays in their barns for silos. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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