Barn

n. farm building used to house animals or store hay and grain

A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house animals or to store farming vehicles and equipment. Barns are most commonly found on a farm or former farm.Older barns were usually built from lumber sawn from timber on the farm, although stone barns were sometimes built in New England, U.S.A., and other areas where stone was a cheaper building material. Modern barns are more typically steel buildings. Prior to the 1900s, most barns were timber framed (also known as post and beam) forming very strong structures to withstand storms and heavy loads of animal feed. From about 1900 to 1940, many large dairy barns were built in northern USA. These commonly have gambrel, or hip roofs to maximize the size of the hayloft above the dairy roof, and have become associated in the popular image of a dairy farm. The barns that were common to the wheatbelt held large numbers of pulling horses such as Clydesdales or Percherons. These large wooden barns, especially when filled with hay, could make spectacular fires that were usually total losses for the farmers. With the advent of balers it became possible to store hay and straw outdoors in stacks surrounded by a plowed fireguard. Many barns in the northern United States are painted red with a white trim. One possible reason for this is that ferric oxide, which is used to create red paint, was the cheapest and most readily available chemical for farmers in New England and nearby areas. Another possible reason is that ferric oxide acts a preservative and so painting a barn with it would help to protect the structure.
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Moravský Beroun (; ) is a town in the Olomouc District, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic. It has 3,322 inhabitants (2006 est.).
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Noun
1. an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
(hypernym) farm building
(hyponym) cowbarn, cowshed, cow barn, cowhouse
2. (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
(synonym) b
(hypernym) area unit, square measure
(classification) nuclear physics, atomic physics, nucleonics

pref. barn, farm building used to house animals or store hay and grain

(v. t.)
To lay up in a barn.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.