What is another word for Granaries?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈanəɹiz] (IPA)

Granaries are essential structures for storing grains, cereals, and other agricultural products. These structures help preserve the nutritional value of the stored food items and minimize wastage. There are several synonyms that can be used for the term granaries, including silos, grain elevators, storehouses, barns, and warehouses. Silos are tall cylindrical structures that are used to store grains, while grain elevators are tall buildings with conveyor belts to move the grains from one level to another. Storehouses and barns are typically wooden structures that provide storage space for farm and dairy products. Warehouses, on the other hand, may be used for more general storage purposes but can also house grains and other agricultural products. Regardless of the term used, granaries play a vital role in ensuring food security for both human and animal consumption.

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Usage examples for Granaries

It was three o'clock in the afternoon when they emerged from the last piece of woods and entered upon a cultivated clearing, in which stood an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a steep roof with gable ends, dormer windows, and wide porches, surrounded by its barn, Granaries and negro quarters.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Two stout men had mounted the ladders in an instant; the young girl opened wide the window, lifted her little brother in her strong young arms, and delivered him to one of her rescuers, then easily climbing on the window-sill she stepped out upon the topmost round of the other ladder, and descended to the ground as lightly as she had been used to do when as a child she had climbed about the barns and Granaries.
"Quicksands"
Adolph Streckfuss
Let the women call their children round them, take up their babes, make a bundle of their garments, and pile upon a wagon cooking pots and such things as are most needed, and then set fire to their houses and stacks and Granaries and go.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty

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