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Definition of Barn

Barn

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.

To lay up in a barn.

A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

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Barn Quotations

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
Meryl Streep

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson

If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Ross Perot

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
Loretta Lynn

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
John Prescott

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Hesiod

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
Taylor Dayne

The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
Janine Turner

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna Southcott

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
Genevieve Gorder

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo Basho

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
Spencer Tracy

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Barn Translations

barn in Danish is barak, lade
barn in Dutch is loods, keet, schuur, barak
barn in German is Scheune
barn in Italian is granaio
barn in Portuguese is celeiro
barn in Spanish is puesto, granero, cobertizo
barn in Swedish is lada

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