Obs. [f. the sb.] To house or store in a barn; to garner. Often fig.

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1593.  Shaks., Lucr., cxxiii. And useless barns the harvest of his wits.

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1647.  Fuller, Good Th. in Worse T. (1841), 110. Whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

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1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. III. (1852), 559. To plant and dress, and barn and beat their corn.

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