Barn Door

Definition: Barn Door

Barn Door

Noun

1. The large sliding door of a barn.

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Animal

Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late);seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Crosswords: Barn Door

Richie loved to use 22s because the bullets are small and they don't come out the other end like a 45, see, a 45 will blow a barn door out the back of your head and there's a lot of dry cleaning involved, but a 22 will just rattle around like Pac-Man until you're dead (My Blue Heaven; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Behind the Barn Door (1993)

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Books

• Open the Barn Door (A Chunky Flap Book) (reference)

• Barn Door Shoulders: Superstriated, Melon-Sized Delts! (Musclebuilder's Body Parts Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Girl looking out of barn door. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign on barn door, Rochester, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Weeds crowd the barn door abandoned in Columbian Basin. Washington, Grant County, one mile east of Quincy. See general caption number 35. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm woman beside her barn door. Tulare County, California. No more horseshoes!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barn door near Cortland, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "barn door": lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. Additional references.

Manx

dorrys soailt. (various references)

Pig Latin

arnbay oorday.(various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bradoon, onboard.

-2 letters: roband.

-3 letters: aboon, adobo, adorn, arbor, ardor, baron, board, boron, brand, broad, brood, dobra, dobro, donor, radon, rondo.

-4 letters: band, bard, barn, boar, bond, boon, boor, bora, born, brad, bran, broo, darb, darn, dona, door, dorr, drab, nard, odor, orad, ordo, orra, rand, road, roan, roar, rood.

-5 letters: abo, ado, and, arb.

+3 letters: hydrocarbon, radiocarbon, snowboarder.

+4 letters: hydrocarbons, radiocarbons, snowboarders, subordinator.

+5 letters: storyboarding, subordinators.