OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4599

granary

/ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
granero
A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he r…
[I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English fa…
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