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Answer for the clue "Place to store wheat ", 7 letters:
granary

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Word definitions for granary in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin granaria "granary, store house for corn," from granum "grain" (see corn (n.1)).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed [syn: garner ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Granary \Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. Granaries . [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner .] 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 ...

Usage examples of granary.

Here, at one time, more than a century ago, his ancestor had built a homestead - a house, a barn, a chicken house, a stable, a granary, a corncrib, and perhaps other buildings, had settled down as a farmer, a soldier returned from the wars, had lived here for a term of years and then had left.

Chapters are devoted to the economic erection and use of barns, grain barns, horse barns, cattle barns, sheep barns, cornhouses, smokehouses, icehouses, pig pens, granaries, etc.

I do have a vivid memory of that evening in the granary of the old Harappan city.

Each had the same granary built high on pillars, the same conical hayrack, the same trellis overgrown with green grapes, the same collection of gnarled trees heavy with fruit.

For now comes his brother, Simon Materna, avenges Gregor Materna, and regardless of the seasons sets fire to timber-frame houses and proud-gabled granaries.

Flocks and fleeces, crops and granaries, leeks and potherbs, drink and goblets, are nowadays the reading and study of the monks, except a few elect ones, in whom lingers not the image but some slight vestige of the fathers that preceded them.

Rapp contained some 160 buildings, ranging from log cabins, which had been erected when the Rappites first settled Harmonie and which they were in the process of phasing out, to large frame and brick structures including dwellings, barns, granaries, factories, workshops, a tavern and an immense church.

Some of the Scarpe women had set up a cook chamber in the old granary, where the damp had risen too sharply to continue storing grain.

The end of the vale, where the granaries, the smithy, and the woodshop had stood, was barren.

Multitudes of men were busied in raising the vast pile of buildings which made up a religious house,--cloisters, dormitories, chapels, hospitals, granaries, barns, storehouses, whose foundations when all else is gone still show in the rugged surface of some modern field.

It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.

Within was little more than garrison, stables and barracks, with a well and granary and a few other outbuildings round about the space for assembly and exercise.

Flood, climbed Bay Horse, Rabbit, and Renegade Bastions without a ladder, wet the powder, made the Congreve rockets fizzle out, and carried a good deal of fish, mostly pike, into the streets and kitchens: everyone was miraculously replenished, although the granaries along Hopfengasse had long since burned down -- sunsets.

Dominic's Flood, climbed Bay Horse, Rabbit, and Renegade Bastions without a ladder, wet the powder, made the Congreve rockets fizzle out, and carried a good deal of fish, mostly pike, into the streets and kitchens: everyone was miraculously replenished, although the granaries along Hopfengasse had long since burned down -- sunsets.

The magi loaded the corn and potatoes, wheat and barley, vegetables and fruits, onto the disks and watched as the Ariels bore them away to the granaries and storage houses of the nobleman who owned the lands.