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
Historical Examples of barn door
You might as well try to act behind a barn-door as to act behind that nose.
Despair's Last JourneyDavid Christie Murray
By this time, several other Quakers had gathered around the barn-door.
ClotelleWilliam Wells Brown
"I am a barn-door fowl that has hatched out a sparrow-hawk," he said meekly.
PatsyS. R. Crockett
Whither should fowl flock in a hard frost, but to the barn-door?
Sometimes the eggs of purple coots are placed under the barn-door fowl.
Jungle FolkDouglas Dewar