BANK BARN Definition & Meaning

bank barn

Chiefly Midland U.S. and Canadian (chiefly Ontario).

a barn built into the side of a hill or with earth banked around it, often a two-story barn thus having a ground-level entrance for each story.

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An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

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The property includes a smokehouse, bank barn, stable, corn crib and two-story staff quarters.

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Beams from the bank barn were used to build the stables.

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I walked to Pioneertown’s film set, Mane Street, passing its stores, bank, barn and hay bales and imagined the bustle during its heyday.

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He also constructed sandstone slave quarters, a stone bank barn and a stone dairy — all of which are still in existence but used in other ways.

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Indeed, the large bank barn, which means it was built into a hillside, is unique in Montgomery County.

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