† imbarnv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To gather into a barn or barns; to garner. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > gather into barn or granary
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1610 Acta Capit. Christ Church, Canterbury 17 July (MS.) To ymbarn in the Barnes..all or the more part of the tythe corne.
1610 R. Davies Chesters Triumph sig. C1v To imbarne them in hells restlesse rest.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 354 If they have not room to imbarn their Corn, they..set it up in ricks.
1796 Ann. Agric. 27 521 They em-barn as much as they can of their corn.
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