barn
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
barn1
▶noun
- 1 a large farm building used for storage or for housing livestock.
- 2 N. Amer. a large shed for storing road or railway vehicles.
– origin OE bern, berern, from bere ‘barley’ + ern, ærn ‘house’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
barn2 (abbrev.: b)
▶noun Physics a unit of area, 10−28 square metres, used especially in particle physics.
– origin 1940s: appar. from the phr. as big as a barn door.
'barn' also found in these Oxford entries:
b
- barn burner
- barn dance
- barn owl
- Dutch barn
- grange
- haymow
- mow
- screech owl
- tithe barn
