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Granary n. (pl. granaries)

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.

Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. "The exhaustless granary of a world."

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"Granary" Quotes from Famous Books

... color, lucid, and as if it were the very body of heaven in its clearness; every object standing out as if etched upon the sky. The northwest end of Corstorphine Hill, with its trees and rocks, lay in the heart of this pure radiance; and there a wooden crane, used in the granary below, was so placed as to assume the figure of a cross; there it was, unmistakable, lifted up against the crystalline sky. All three gazed at it silently. As they gazed, Thackeray gave utterance ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... went home and built a rice granary to hold his grain, and when he returned to the field the rice was all cut. Then the tikgi said: "We have cut all your rice, Ligi, so give us our pay, and when you go home the rice will all be in ...

— Philippine Folk Tales • Mabel Cook Cole

... The inmates were allowed to walk within certain prescribed limits only, generally a mile from the house. They were forbidden to stay out all night, and were not on any account permitted to enter the bakehouse, brewhouse, and granary, excepting the brother in charge, and he was not to dare to touch the bread and beer, since it was "most unfitting that persons with such a malady, should handle things appointed for the common use of ...

— The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses • Robert Charles Hope

... tell me," he began, "of the things that have happened while I have lain here, helpless as a bag of corn in the granary, and ...

— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne

... a measure has been proposed, and is under deliberation: that is, for government to set up a granary in every market-town, at the expense of the state, in order to extinguish the dealer, and to subject the farmer to the consumer, by securing corn to the latter at a certain and ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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