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granaries
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.
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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.
--Thomson.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of granary English)
Usage examples of "granaries".
Severus celebrated the secular games with extraordinary magnificence, and he left in the public granaries a provision of corn for seven years, at the rate of 75,000 modii, or about 2500 quarters per day.
The coin, the highways, the posts, the granaries, the manufactures, whatever could interest the public prosperity, was moderated by the authority of the Praetorian praefects.
The granaries of Rome were insensibly exhausted, the adjacent country had been wasted with fire and sword.
Rome, and the private granaries along the Vicus Tuscus held very little.
You said you wouldn't seize the granaries, but you didn't say anything about putting guards on them.
At Nevers, the bakers not having put bread on their counters for four days, the mob force the granaries of private persons, of dealers and religious communities.
In Touraine, it is certain that this or that wholesale dealer allows it to sprout in his granaries rather than sell it.
In fact, the granaries and cellars belonging to a large number of persons are pillaged.
They enter each farm, mount into the granaries, estimate the quantity of grain thrashed out, and force the proprietor to sign an agreement to bring it to market the following week.
Beyond it to the east there soon came into view the square-topped minarets of the Overlord's palace, each finished in stone of different hue, and to the south the dun granaries like vast smokestacks.