NOUN
- an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas
How To Use barndoor In A Sentence
- There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the Dog who protects the farm-yard. Essays
- So I agree with "shinyteapot", add a Dany scene so the viewer sees her struggle. hell, they're already added the brothel scene to help character development, so that barndoor is already open. Episode 2: What comes next?
- At times a glance down into the clear water will show a score of fish in sight at once, hake, haddock, cod, halibut, dog-fish, and perhaps an immense "barndoor" skate, a yard or more square. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
- By stepping through the reveal of Giacomo Rossi-Stuart's doppelgänger, I noticed that the green light that suddenly illuminates the side of his face flares up a beat or two after he turns to face the hero -- as if it was already on, waiting for a piece of cardboard to drop away, or a lighting "barndoor" to open and expose it. Archive 2007-01-28
- December 30, 2005 at 5: 41 pm closing the barndoor too late†¦ Misunderestiquote « BuzzMachine
- Basil! he never could understand why she could not climb trees as well as he and Susan D. D.ar Basil! dearest of boys! how nice he looked in his new blue suit; and who would mend the first "barndoor" that he tore in jacket or trousers? Fernley House
- It was "only" the 3rd largest barndoor captured during the week of my stay. Field & Stream
- When I recovered my presence of mind a little, I took the locket out of the bit of paper (the locket indeed! it was as big as a barndoor padlock), and slowly put it into my shirt. The Great Hoggarty Diamond
- Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation. The Bride of Lammermoor
- Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation. The Bride of Lammermoor
