grain bin

collocation in English

meaningsofgrainandbin

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grain
noun
uk
/ɡreɪn/us
/ɡreɪn/
a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice ...
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bin
noun[C]
uk
/bɪn/us
/bɪn/
a container ...
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(Definition ofgrainandbinfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most of the machinery, including the grindstones, conveyors, sackhoist and grain bins, date from 1888 and is still used for grinding animal feed and occasionally whole wheat flour.
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It is extremely hard to assess what a pile of grain lying in a farmer's yard orgrainbinrepresents.
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The two lived in a convertedgrainbinand helped with various projects such as gardening, natural building and cooking.
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She tells of the death of her husband, who had been working one day in thegrainbinand got covered with grain dust.
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After considerable success withgrainbinproduction, the company branched out into pre-engineered buildings in 1939.
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A largegrainbinwas heavily damaged as well.
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A largegrainbinwas blown across the canal and flattened.
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Workers entering agrainbinshould be equipped with a body harness which is tethered to a lifeline manned by at least two other individuals outside of the bin.
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I have in mind augers and blowers for silos or grain bins and also mobile drying equipment for floor drying of grain or ventilation of potato stocks.
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When grain becomes excessively crusted together and/or cakes to walls of storage bins, workers enter grain bins to loosen grain to facilitate its removal.
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During storage, these breads gradually became drier and drier, even if they were carefully wrapped in cloth or placed in grain bins.
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A smokehouse, a barn which later became a granary, a privy, and three grain bins were added in the 1930s.
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Complete granary interiors, with plastered walls and wooden partitioning to grain bins, are very rare.
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Train all workers for the specific hazardous work operations they are to perform when entering and working inside of grain bins.
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At issue was whether his clients were liable to the owner of free-range horses who had eaten an excessive amount of grain which had spilled from their grain bins.
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Additionally, workers are also exposed to potentially fatal falls as they move from the vertical exterior ladders on grain bins to the bin roof or through a bin entrance.
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