Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A barn built on a hillside or sloping ground, so that three sides of the lower story are surrounded by earth, the fourth being unbanked.
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Examples
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The Sarki from time to time demanded of young Waziri such facts as a carpenter's son might be expected to know, and added lumber-prices in his head as Aaron's bank-barn and two-story farmhouse took form in his imagination.
Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang
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And if all goes well, I want a bank-barn, the same as they have in the East, with cement flooring and modern stalling.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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For many summers the big boulders were gathered from the fields and piled in a long heap at the bottom of the lane on their way to their ultimate destination, the foundation of the bank-barn.
The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898
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The building of a bank-barn was a watershed in farm chronology.
The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898
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