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Granary n. (pl. granaries)

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.

Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. "The exhaustless granary of a world."

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... facility to foreign trade, and the vast and then partially explored domains of Kentucky and Ohio inviting the already swelling tide of immigration, and their prolific valleys destined to be the granary of the two hemispheres—all that surrounded Virginia seemed prophetic of growth and security within, the economist and the lover of nature found the most varied materials; with three hundred and fifty-five miles ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... notion that the first principle is water. The state of things in Egypt suggests that this primitive dogma of European philosophy was a popular notion in that country. With but little care on the part of men the fertilizing Nile-water yielded those abundant crops which made Egypt the granary of the Old World. It might therefore be said, both philosophically and facetiously, that the first principle of all things is water. The harvests depended on it, and, through them, animals and man. The government ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... and passed through the so-called Knight's Hall, where immense beams, laid one on the other, supported the roof. At either end of the hall was a huge fireplace, with armorial bearings painted above: the hall was now used as a granary; they were obliged to step over a heap of corn before reaching the family pew in the little chapel, which was no longer used ...

— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen

... here," she said, "and will provide all we have. We have no men-servants now, to show where the stables and granary lie." ...

— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn

... many buildings he is eaten up by the expense of maintenance, while if one builds less than the farm requires the harvest is lost, for there is no doubt that the largest wine cellar must be provided for that farm on which the vintages are largest, or granary, if ...

— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

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