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barnless

barnless adjective: without a barn (building).

Adjective

barnless (not comparable)

  1. Without a barn (building).
    • A BARNLESS COUNTRY. In any other country than California to talk of raising thousands of bushels of wheat, barley or oats, fitting and storing it ready for the market, by threshing, bagging and housing till opportunity of sale presents, and this without a barn or shelter for a single sack, would...1858 August, The California Culturist. A Journal of Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanism and Mining, volume 1, page 121
    • MEDIEVAL RURAL LIFE AND ORGANIZATION. The manorial village. Let us refresh our memory at first with a glance at country life in England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. All rural life in England at this time was village life. Farmhouses were gathered into clusters sheltering a population...1922 [1918], Charles Josiah Galpin, “Chapter IV: Structure of rural society”, in Rural Life, New York: Century Company, page 67

Origin of barnless

From barn + -less.

Questions about barnless

What does barnless mean?
Barnless means without a barn (building).
What part of speech is barnless?
Barnless is an adjective.

Words near barnless in the dictionary

  1. barniest
  2. barnight
  3. barnights
  4. barning
  5. Barningham
  6. barnless
  7. barnlike
  8. barnmate
  9. barnmates
  10. Barno
  11. Barnoldswick

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