What is "barnlike"

Usage examples of "barnlike".

And below there appeared a cluster of wharves, barnlike warehouses roofed with red tin, a docked ship that looked to Moon like some sort of navy auxiliary vessel, a very small and very dirty freighter, and a hodgepodge of anchored small craft, among them a pencil-slim two-masted sailing ship, which seemed from high above so white, so clean, so tidy that Moon thought of a swan in a yardful of dirty ducks.

Paks crossed the bridge, and saw a great barnlike building looming over the cottages between.

It was big and barnlike with a bar in the back and a gallery running all the way around where spectators could pause and look down at the laughing, leaping throng.

He passed through to the large barnlike structure that housed the stalls.

In the moonlight he spotted a large, barnlike building just beyond the neat rows of houses.

Here there was another large concreted area with two or three large brown, metal-sided, barnlike buildings arranged in a loose triangle around it.

At quarter to five, thirty-seven-year-old John Richardson, a porter at the Spitalfields Market, headed toward 29 Han-bury Street, a rooming house for the poor that, like so many other dilapidated dwellings in Spitalfields, had once been a barnlike workplace for weavers to toil on hand looms until steam power had put them out of business.

It was a huge, timber-framed, barnlike structure, oak and white pine on a poured-slab foundation.