Barn definition

Barn

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WordNet

(1) An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

(2) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter

WiktionaryText

A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
A unit of surface area equal to 10^-28 square metres.
Short for barnacle, A barn is a person who latches on to another person (called the hull) and thinks he or she is somehow better because of his or her association with the hull.
A child (from Old Norse), (= bairn).
An arena.

Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.