barn´like´

barn´like´
barn «bahrn», noun.
1. a building for storing hay, grain, straw, or other farm produce and for sheltering cows, horses, and farm machinery: »

Dairy farms have milking barns where the cows are brought inside to be milked.

2. U.S. a large building for housing subway cars and buses and also for doing light maintenance work on them; garage; depot.
3. Informal. any place considered to resemble a barn, such as a huge, drafty room; place of general discomfort and emptiness.
4. a unit of measure used in nuclear physics, equal to 1024 square centimeter. It is the smallest square area thus far designated as a unit of measure.
[Middle English bern < Old English berern, bereern < bere barley1 + ærn storeroom]
barn´like´, adjective.

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