barn

A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

• 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.

A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

An arena.informal

• Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.slang

To lay up in a barn.transitive

• But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits
• Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

A child.