Definitions

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  • noun The quantity that a barn will hold.

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  • noun The amount that can fit in a barn

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  • noun the quantity that a barn will hold

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Examples

  • I always was a cat lover, and it was cemented that summer by spending hours in a barnful of cats.

    Archive 2007-04-01 kittenpie 2007

  • I always was a cat lover, and it was cemented that summer by spending hours in a barnful of cats.

    A Simpler Time kittenpie 2007

  • Lately, Miller has been running ads showing Dalmations, longtime Anheuser mascots, bolting from a barnful of Clydesdales and chasing down a Miller truck.

    For All You Do, Bud, 2008

  • Word has it that a good Rat Terrier or two can dispose of a barnful of rats in an afternoon.

    High Concept Week Interlude: Rats! David Campbell 2007

  • And in the midst of this rubble, serene as the Virgin Mother in her barnful of shepherds and scabby livestock, one amazing, beautiful thing: a large, oval white platter painted with delicate blue forget-me-nots, bone china, so fine that sunlight passes through it.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • And in the midst of this rubble, serene as the Virgin Mother in her barnful of shepherds and scabby livestock, one amazing, beautiful thing: a large, oval white platter painted with delicate blue forget-me-nots, bone china, so fine that sunlight passes through it.

    Poisonwood, Again Bruce Schauble 2007

  • He really was the kid he used to talk about who knew, faced with a barnful of manure that there had to be a pony around somewhere.

    CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004 2004

  • 'Often only three or four families, all so inbred you can no more sort them out than a barnful of cats.

    A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962

  • Howard wondered who was buying up hay at this time and by the big barnful.

    The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Here we've got a barnful of high-class, intellectooal poem, an 'yon we have a State full of yearnin' minds, clamorous for mental improvement at one fifty per volume.

    Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903

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