barn door

noun

the door of a barn

informal a target so large that it cannot be missed

photog television theatre an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp

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Examples from the Web for barn door

Sometimes the eggs of purple coots are placed under the barn-door fowl.
Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar
Friedrich cautiously rises; dresses; takes his money, his new red roquelaure, unbolts the Barn-door, and walks out.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Sitting in my barn-door study I see a vesper sparrow fly up and alight on the telephone wire with nesting-material in her beak.
Under the Maples|John Burroughs
A barn-door fowl is preferable to any other, only that it cannot be fatted in so short a time.
The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,|Mary Eaton

Birds were chirping in the orchard trees, and there was the scarcely less pleasant sound of barn-door fowls near at hand.
David Fleming's Forgiveness|Margaret Murray Robertson