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n. - The quantity that a farm building will hold.

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  • Word has it that a good Rat Terrier or two can dispose of a barnful of rats in an afternoon.
  • I always was a cat lover, and it was cemented that summer by spending hours in a barnful of cats.
  • 'Often only three or four families, all so inbred you can no more sort them out than a barnful of cats.
  • He really was the kid he used to talk about who knew, faced with a barnful of manure that there had to be a pony around somewhere.
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