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Barn door

noun

The large sliding door of a barn.

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"Barn door" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the other as far as he could, and then he shuffled along, not raising his feet. He found this the best way, and soon he was at the barn door, with Laddie behind him. ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope

... rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal. 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 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... writers, and players, who are sure that since they must be geniuses, it is necessary to be Bohemians in order to show it. The really big ones are always trying to be practical, like Sir Isaac Newton when he ordered a good-sized hole to be cut in his barn door for the cat, and a little one next ...

— The Little City Of Hope - A Christmas Story • F. Marion Crawford

... protection does not apply. The program could then poke a large value into its 'privilege level' byte (normally write-protected) and could then proceed to bypass all levels of security within the file-management system, patch the system monitor, and do numerous other interesting things. In short, the barn door ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... anything about his "stalking a petticoat on the clothesline," and then shyly closed the door and regained her room. HE must have got away by this time, or have been discovered; she believed they would not open the barn door until the return of ...

— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte

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