Granary vs Barn - What's the difference?
granary | barn |
(agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
(figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.
(label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
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, title= (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
An arena.
To lay up in a barn.
* Shakespeare
In agriculture terms the difference between granary and barn
is that granary is a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed while barn is a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.As a verb barn is
to lay up in a barn.granary
English
(wikipedia granary)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* granary breadSee also
* silo * grain elevatorbarn
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) bern, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
Derived terms
* barnstar * barnstorm * barnyard * barn dance * barn door * barn owl * barn-raising * born in a barn * raised in a barn * smell the barnVerb
(en verb)- Men often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
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