Barnroom
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Room (space) in a barn: room (for livestock or for storage of fodder) supplied by a barn. dated, uncommon, uncountable
"An evil attendant of the Midland method of harveſting looſe corn is, the increaſe of bulk which corn harveſted in this way acquires, comparatively with the ſame quantity of corn harveſted in the Kentiſh manner. More barnroom is of courſe wanted, and a greater number of loads are to be carried. Four loads an acre is no uncommon crop : five loads are talked of, and are ſometimes carried. But the method of loading, and that of barning, both of them tend to increaſe this evil. The method of CARRYING looſe corn, here, differs from that of other diſtricts, in having only one loader to two pitchers; and in loading, not with the arms, but with a fork; the loader ſtanding in the centre of the load, and piling the corn looſe and light around him. Thus the entire proces tends to encreaſe the number of loads. And the method of HOUSING is not calculated to do away the inconveniency. I never met with an inſtance, in this diſtrict, of a horſe, or any other animal, being uſed on a mow. Ricking, however, remedies the evil ; and in this diſtrict, where barnroom is more contracted than in ſome other, looſe corn is pretty generally put into ricks."
Example
More examples"An evil attendant of the Midland method of harveſting looſe corn is, the increaſe of bulk which corn harveſted in this way acquires, comparatively with the ſame quantity of corn harveſted in the Kentiſh manner. More barnroom is of courſe wanted, and a greater number of loads are to be carried. Four loads an acre is no uncommon crop : five loads are talked of, and are ſometimes carried. But the method of loading, and that of barning, both of them tend to increaſe this evil. The method of CARRYING looſe corn, here, differs from that of other diſtricts, in having only one loader to two pitchers; and in loading, not with the arms, but with a fork; the loader ſtanding in the centre of the load, and piling the corn looſe and light around him. Thus the entire proces tends to encreaſe the number of loads. And the method of HOUSING is not calculated to do away the inconveniency. I never met with an inſtance, in this diſtrict, of a horſe, or any other animal, being uſed on a mow. Ricking, however, remedies the evil ; and in this diſtrict, where barnroom is more contracted than in ſome other, looſe corn is pretty generally put into ricks."
Etymology
From barn + room.
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