barn
barns
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.
In rural areas there are many barns, often built from wood and standing near a main farmhouse. Some barns have wide doors with stalls for animals inside, and a hayloft at the top, where hay or other crops can be stored. In Old English, a barn or bereærn literally meant "barley house," from bere, "barley," and aern, "house."
Definitions of barn
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
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byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed
a barn for cows
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tithe barn
barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England
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type of:
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farm building
a building on a farm
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byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed
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(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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b
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area unit, square measure
a system of units used to measure areas
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area unit, square measure
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