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plural barns
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. quotations examples
One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. examples
(informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena. examples
(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned
(transitive) To lay up in a barn. quotations examples
But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits
1594, Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, line 859
Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times; Good Thoughts in Worse Times; Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, published 1863, page 165
(dialect, parts of Northern England) A child. examples