BARN DOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barn door mean? 

• BARN DOOR (noun)
  The noun BARN DOOR has 1 sense:

1. the large sliding door of a barn

  Familiarity information: BARN DOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARN DOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The large sliding door of a barn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("barn door" is a kind of...):

sliding door (a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging)

 Context examples 

But the worst of it was that with the course I now held we turned our broadside instead of our stern to the HISPANIOLA and offered a target like a barn door.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)