Grange vs Barn - What's the difference?
grange | barn |
(British) A farm, especially that of a gentleman farmer.
* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, ''Othello, Act I, scene I, line 120:
Outlying land belonging to a monastery.
(archaic) A granary.
(label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
* , chapter=11
, title= (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
An arena.
To lay up in a barn.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun grange
is (us) (usually, with "the") national grange of the patrons of husbandry, an association of farmers.As a noun barn is
(label) a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle or barn can be (dialect|parts of northern england) a child.As a verb barn is
to lay up in a barn.grange
English
(wikipedia grange)Noun
(en noun)- What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange .
Anagrams
* * ----barn
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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