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barn
I. \ˈbärn, ˈbȧn\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English bern, from Old English bereærn, from bere barley + ærn place — more at barley, rest
1.
a. : a usually large farm building originally for the storage of farm products and feed (as grain and hay) but now used as a general storage building (as for hay, drying tobacco, and farm equipment or vehicles) and usually for the housing of farm animals typically in separated sections
b. : the section of such a building that is used for the housing of farm animals (as horses or cows) and their feed
c. : a building for the housing of cattle or horses and their feed
< stabling accommodations for nearly nine hundred horses in barns of the latest type — New Yorker >
d. : a large building for the housing of a fleet of vehicles (as trolley cars or trucks) — compare carbarn
e. : an unusually large and usually bare building
< a great barn of a hotel with roomy porches — W.A.White >
2. railroad slang : roundhouse
3. [so called from its having been considered “as big as a barn” with respect to nuclear bombardment] : a unit of area that equals 10-24 sq. cm. used in nuclear physics for measuring cross section
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to store (a crop) in a barn
III. \ˈbȧn\
variant of bairn |