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.
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.
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Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
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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.
To lay up in a barn.
A child. [Obs.] See
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesI 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.