Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building for storing threshed grain.
- noun A region yielding much grain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A storehouse or repository for grain after it is threshed, or for maize in the ear; a corn-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.
- noun A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to
breadbasket , used figuratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun agriculture A storage facility for
grain or sometimes animal feed. - noun figuratively A fertile, grain-growing
region .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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For example, Anacharsis Cloots, who is a member of the Committee of Public Instruction, and who one should, of course, expect not to be more ignorant than his colleagues, has lately advised them to distress the enemy by invading Scotland, which he calls the granary of England.
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For example, Anacharsis Cloots, who is a member of the Committee of Public Instruction, and who one should, of course, expect not to be more ignorant than his colleagues, has lately advised them to distress the enemy by invading Scotland, which he calls the granary of England.
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Canada, long known as the granary, is also the "woodyard" of the Empire, and had a wonderful display of pulp and paper covering a thousand square feet.
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For example, Anacharsis Cloots, who is a member of the Committee of Public Instruction, and who one should, of course, expect not to be more ignorant than his colleagues, has lately advised them to distress the enemy by invading Scotland, which he calls the granary of England.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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When you harvest your crop, you store it in a fat dried mud and stick granary, which is taller than you can reach.
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When you harvest your crop, you store it in a fat dried mud and stick granary, which is taller than you can reach.
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This place was called the granary, and was used for a drying ground.
La Vend�e 2004
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Egypt was known as the granary of the ancient world.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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In the granary, which is usually a low back room, the ears of corn are often sorted by color and laid up in neat piles, red, yellow, white, blue, black, and mottled, a Hopi study in corn color.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921
sionnach commented on the word granary
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook; 20
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Keats : "Ode to Autumn"
October 26, 2007
reesetee commented on the word granary
Sionnach! One of my all-time favorite poems! :-D
October 26, 2007
yarb commented on the word granary
Ditto, Keats at his winnowing best.
October 26, 2007