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barndoor

barndoor \barndoor\ n. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas.

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barndoor

n. The large door of a barn

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barndoor

n. an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas

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Usage examples of "barndoor".

He'll get a good day's sport--no barndoor birds" (for he encouraged his pheasants to remain lean, that they might fly the better), "but don't let him expect one of these battues--sheer butchery, I call them.

The barndoor cock, when we left him on board the steamer going to New York, had not yet learned the nature of his own requirements.