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Barn Meaning & Definition
Barn Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Barn?

[n] an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
[n] (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter

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See Also | area unit | cow barn | cowbarn | cowhouse | cowshed | farm building | square measure | tithe barn

Barn In Webster's Dictionary

\Barn\, n. [OE. bern, AS. berern, bern; bere barley + ern, [ae]rn, a close place. ?92. See {Barley}.] A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. {Barn owl} (Zo["o]l.), an owl of Europe and America ({Aluco flammeus}, or {Strix flammea}), which frequents barns and other buildings. {Barn swallow} (Zo["o]l.), the common American swallow ({Hirundo horreorum}), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.
\Barn\, v. t. To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] --Shak. Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. --Fuller.
\Barn\, n. A child. [Obs.] See {Bairn}.

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