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barn-door
[f. barn n.]
1. The large door of a barn. (Applied humorously to a target too large to be easily missed, and, in Cricket, to a player that blocks every ball.)
1547J. Heywood Four P's in Dodsley O.P. (1780) I. 87 Bendynge his browes as brode as barne-durres. 1632Milton L'Allegro 51 While the cock..to the stack or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before. 1679‘Tom Ticklefoot’ Trials of Wakeman 9 My Old Master Clodpate would have been hanged before he would have missed such a Barn-dore. 1847Longfellow Ev. i. ii. 50 Heavily closed, with a jarring sound, the valves of the barn-doors.
2. transf. A door-like shutter in front of a lamp used for photographic purposes.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 600 Barn door, a doorlike attachment on a lens to control the light. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinématogr. 79/1 Barn-doors, adjustable flaps fitted to the front of a lighting unit, in order to control the spread of the light beam. 1960O. Skilbeck ABC Film & TV Terms 16 Barn door, a variable mask designed to be used in front of studio lamps..and consisting of ‘doors’ opening longitudinally and/or vertically.
3. attrib.
a. Reared at the barn-door.
c1685in Dk. Buckhm's. Wks. 1705 II. 48 She..slew a Barn-door Fowl with her own Hands. 1783Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode to R. Acad. i. Wks. I. 50 Plump as barn-door chicken. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, Our barn-door chuckies.
b. As large as, or resembling, a barn-door; often in humorous application (cf. sense 1 above). Also in Comb.
1829Blackw. Mag. Dec. 856 Such is the birthright of Britons—to open their mouths barn-door wide... The aforesaid barn-door-wide mouths. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi. 256 Skirts were trodden on..and there was more than one ‘barn-door’ rent. 1868C. Box Theory & Pract. Cricket 91 The Gentlemen's wickets were 27 in. by 8; the Players' 36 in. by 12 in. This was called the Barn-Door Match. 1898G. Giffen With Bat & Ball v. 64 It was almost painful to watch a giant of six feet and a half playing the barndoor game. 1932Blunden Face of Eng. 76 He met each ball with a barn-door bat. |