tithe barn

British  

noun

1. a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored

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Example Sentences

He’s got his tithe barn stuffed with children from Water Lane, as if he wanted to spread it. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Could we, then, see the tithe barn filled again with golden wheat for this purpose of help to humanity, it might be a great and wonderful good.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

Hard by is a fine tithe barn with finials on the gables, and a 15th-cent. house with a most picturesque porch and panelled octagonal chimney.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

Close to the church is a huge tithe barn, the date of which appears to be between 1450 and 1500.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind

A number of women are sitting working together in a big room not unlike an old English tithe barn in its timbered construction, but with windows high up next the roof.

From The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Shaw, Bernard