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granary

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1570, OED Evaluation: N/A

A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.

ExampleMeaning
The grain runs out in bushels- bushels ah on the side of the mill and (inc) you have to have a man carrying them to the granary as they come out.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What other little buildings for animals did you have? Or for- did you have a- a s-- separate building for storing the grain? Or did you- Speaker: Oh yes, for the granary. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Oh yes for the granaries- they were right beside the byre. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: By the byre.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
Interviewer: Can you think of any other buildings that- that we haven't talked about that you had? Speaker: No, all we had was just the- the granary. That's where we kept the grain. Interviewer: Yeah. Yes. Speaker: And the haymows where we kept the hay.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Interviewer: Mm-hm. Where did you store the grain? Speaker: You had to have a granary. Had to have a granary for it. Interviewer: What d-- what was it like? Speaker: Just an ordinary building with a good tight floor and good tight walls.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Interviewer: Where did the grain go? Speaker: Well, sometimes you'd set up- at that time they had a lot of uh, uh, wooden granaries- Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And they'd have a- a whole up near the top and they just maybe- Interviewer: They'd actually thrash into the granary? Speaker: That's where you'd- that- And then sometimes they- they had wagons and the wagons took them right out- they weren't too far from town ...
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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... there was pigeons in the barn but this one fell out of the nest or-something, got quite (inc). Dad liked it, he was getting old then, and he didn't move around so much, and he used to go to the granary and get a quart of wheat, and then he'd raise his window and put it on the sill of the window, and the pigeon would come over and eat it.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
... if there was too much and wouldn't fit in the barn, and then there was somebody to cut the bands on the sheaves, band cutters, and ah, then there was feeding the mill the sheaves, and ah, carrying the grain to the granary. And I think that covers most of them.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Speaker: And um my parents were both from Saskatchewan, and my mom came here to marry my dad. Interviewer: Okay. How about your grandparents? Speaker: Um my mother's father worked um in a granary elevator, and um my grandma was um a seamstress. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And my dad's parents ah they worked um mostly in um and farmer (inc).
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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... the straw that would come from- i-- if they were in the straw mow, they would be filthy. Ah, and then there'd be somebody bagging the oats, I-guess or putting them into the granary or-something.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Interviewer: What twister? Speaker: Well, the barn next door to us blew- it went right down. And the horse- I think one or two horses were killed because they were under the granary but I didn't- mom- some of us were in the back lane or-something-or-other and I guess the sky got really scary looking.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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You wanted to have a job and ah, so there's a-- a lot of grain and ah, uncle-Gregor said, "Well why don't you just stay in the granary and just kind of keep, keep it shovelled back" and-so-on, so that was fine. But by the time they were ready to go in for supper, ah, I was sick, all the dust.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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And of course you weren't doing that you'd take ah just a little piece of stove wood and that was your wheel of your car and you would take a little piece of chain out of the junk bin in the granary and tie that on the soles of your boot and that was your chains because you were always getting stuck, and ah, you'd drive this car around and get stuck and you'd be spinning your wheels with these chains on your feet and- and-so-on.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Speaker: So you would feed that into the thrashing mill, with forks, you-know and my job was on the bagger, and it was a burlap bags, you would set that would catch the grain coming out, and then you would carry that from your barn, where you doing it, to the granary and put it in the- in big bins.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.