tithe barn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Near the church is a cruciform tithe barn.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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
The docked sheaves were conveyed to the tithe barn either before or after the carrying of the others.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
The tithe barn has so completely dropped out of modern life that it may be well to briefly mention that its use was to hold the tenth sheaf from every wheat-field in the parish.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
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