Granary
['græn(ə)rɪ] or ['grænəri]
Definition
(n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Garner, corn-house.
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Definition
n. a storehouse for grain or threshed corn.
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Examples
- Though it goes backwards and forwards between the ground and the granary, it never changes masters, and therefore does not properly circulate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Large granaries were established, and proved so successful that local capital was tempted into the project of making a tow-path canal from Lockwood Landing all the way to Milan itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our habitations were palaces our food was ready stored in granaries--there was no need of labour, no inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The council, mindful of its social duties, superintended the filling of the municipal granaries, in order to have supplies in years of scarcity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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