barn

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  1. noun A large farm building used for storing farm products and sheltering livestock.
  2. noun A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
  3. noun A particularly large, typically bare building: lived in a barn of a country house.
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  • The house and the barn were about a hundred years old and the truck was about a month old. —  One Shot by Lee Child
  • As anticipated, the atmosphere in the barn was arctic, even with Eddie's attempts to lighten it. —  dummy1
  • Next to the barn is a rain barrel, half filled with foul-smelling water. —  RustyNail
  • Empathy, Harry ... Empathy. It's what separates us from crocodiles and cockroaches The front half of the second floor of the barn is our multipurpose room. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • What the devil did you imagine that episode in the barn was about? —  This is a work of fiction
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  1. Middle English bern, from Old English berærn : bere, barley; see bhares- in Indo-European roots + ærn, house.

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  1. from barn, n.
  2. Early modern and dial. English, from Scots bairn, q. v., from Middle English beern, bern, from Anglo-Saxon bearn, a child. See bairn.
 

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