A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made out of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animals. ==Early origins== From ancient times grain has been stored in bulk. The oldest granaries yet found dat... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granary
(from the article `India`) ...about 5 feet (1.5 metres) high and separated from each other by narrow passages formed a podium of some 150 by 75 feet (45 by 22 metres), which ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/57
A building designed to hold grain. Roman forts possessed granaries called horrea, after the Latin for grain Horreum. Purpose-built granaries after the Roman period are Post-Medieval. They are often situated near ports for the import/export of the grain. These need not be exclusively for grain. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20766
Gran'a·ry noun ; plural Granaries . [ Latin granarium , from granum grain. See Garner .] A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. « The exhaustless granary of a worl... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/50