The word "barn" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a large building designed for housing animals, storing hay, or other agricultural purposes. Example: The farmer was storing hay in his old, red barn.
Having frantically tried to dig his way out of a barn where hundreds were being burned to death, a man's body lies wedged under a wall where he was shot by German troops.
William Hill bookmakers have the barn owl as second favourite behind the robin to take the win.
So here, for the time being, are the chickens, all 6,000 of them; 1,000 per state-of-the free-range-poultry-art mobile barn, a crowd of white-feather-dusters fossicking around in the grass surrounding their homes.
She watched it for ten minutes as it leapt onto a barn roof before it strolling off towards Sedgwick.
But humans responded, and over half of barn owl nests are now thought to be in manmade boxes.
There are also serious cycle facilities on site (bike shop, rental and guided tours, lock-up, repairs and bike wash), while the accommodation sits above both cafe and bike shop in the two adjacent, stone-built dales barn buildings.
We pay a premium to be here – approximately three times as much as the barn – but it pays for itself in many different forms.
"The barn was ideal for us at the time and cost a fraction of what we pay now for roughly the same space, but the location eventually hampered our growth, affecting morale and limiting our capacity to hire the right people and win new business," he says.
There are some great deals, such as a thatched cottage near the picturesque port of Honfleur in Normandy (sleeps four, from £230 a month), or a converted barn with a garden on the Dordogne river near Bergerac (sleeps two, from £257 a month).
The book is a collection of seven stories, ranging from how William discovers that lemon soap (guest size) does not make for a good lemon substitute in cooking, to how the village suffers from a "Bomb Inferiority Complex", to how William (sort of) captures Hitler in the old barn, to finally witnessing his attempts to accelerate the peace process by having Violet Elizabeth run over by a train.
Further along, a barn owl sat snoozing on a ledge while the finches around went crazy.
