binna, a sort of chest or cupboard, wherein to lock up bread, meat, or other provisions. The word is also used for a place boarded up to put corn in.
or BIN. The pease and oatmeal, used at sea, are apt to spoil in casks. Dr Hales proposes to prevent this, by putting them into large bins, with false bottoms of hair-cloths laid on bars, whereby fresh air may be blown upwards through them, at proper times, with small ventilators.