barn
barn (bärn)
noun
- a farm building for sheltering harvested crops, livestock, machines, etc.
- ☆ a large building for streetcars, trucks, etc.
Etymology: arbitrary use, from phr. as big as a barn
Nuclear Physics a unit of area used to show the degree of probability that a nuclear reaction will occur: 1 barn = a magnitude of 10 sq cm per nucleus: abbrev. b
Etymology: ME < OE bern, berern < bere, barley + ærn, house: see rest
barn
n.
Kinds of barns include: stable, chicken house, cow barn, coop, cote, hutch, sty, fold, pen, byre, kennel, mow; pad*, bullock lodge*, cow house*.
Converse of object
- convert: The business is located in a superbly converted 18th century barn in a courtyard at the back of a farm.
- thresh: The site museum, including a new exhibition in the 17th Century thatched threshing barn, presents the archeological story of Avebury.
- renovate: We have five renovated barns, sleeping 22 in total.
- detach: Adding versatility for guests, a small detached barn in the garden offers a very private twin bedded suite.
- thatch: After about half a mile, you come to the large thatched barn on the left, with the Center just beyond it.
- corrugate: Continue ahead up a rising field, to a gate at the right of a corrugated barn.
Adjective modifier
- converted: Chestnut, on the ground floor of the converted barn, is very spacious for two people.
- timber-framed: The timber-framed barn from Cowfold dates from 1536, its main use was for the storage of crops.
- aisled: There is a moat and an impressive aisled barn The unwieldy vicarage of 1882, built by its vicar, once had vast grounds.
- adjoining: The Garden is not private and is shared with the owners of the adjoining barn.
- derelict: Stone from a derelict barn was salvaged to create the plinth courses within its footprint of the new extension.
Modifies a noun
- owl: The baby barn owls are able to eat their own body weight in food every night.
- conversion: A luxury barn conversion, offering cozy 5 Star comfort.
- dance: The name today usually means a barn dance style dance with cowboy hats etc - a western theme.
Noun used with modifier
- tithe: Evidence of this is clearly visible at Court Farm where there are the remains of the stone tithe barn.
- hay: In 1794 there were large hay barns in the Finchley district ( fn.
- stone: By night they are housed in a large stone barn with plenty of space, all their feed is additive free.
- cruck: Sixteen routes follow, punctuated with fascinating points of interest along the route - standing stones, springs, cruck barns and chapels.
- camping: Membership also offers access to the 80 camping barns in some of the best countryside in England, including six National Parks.
- granite: Our holiday homes have been carefully converted from the granite barns that once formed an old Cornish farmyard.
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
The lads in their hundredsto Ludlowcome in for the fair, There'smen fromthe barn and the forge and themill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are lads that will never be old.
While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before. 576
Browse dictionary entries near barn
- barmy
- Barmecide (feast)
- barman
- barmaid
- barm
- barleycorn
- barley water
- barley sugar
- barley
- Barking
- barn dance
- barn owl
- barn swallow
- Barnabas
- Barnaby
- barnacle
- barnacle goose
- barnacles
- Barnard
- Barnaul
