barn : Idioms & Phrases

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barn dance

  • noun a dance party featuring country dancing
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barn door

  • noun the large sliding door of a barn
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barn grass

  • noun a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
    barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli; barn grass.
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barn millet

  • noun a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
    barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli; barn grass.
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Barn owl

  • noun mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control
    Tyto alba.
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  • (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings.
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barn spider

  • noun an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily
    Araneus cavaticus.
    • the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'
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Barn swallow

  • noun common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.
    Hirundo rustica; chimney swallow.
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  • (Zoöl.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.
Webster 1913

cow barn

  • noun a barn for cows
    cowshed; cowbarn; byre; cowhouse.
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horse barn

  • noun a farm building for housing horses or other livestock
    stalls; stable.
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tithe barn

  • noun barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England
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