1. A target too large to be easily missed: cf. quot. 1547. Hence BARNDOOR PRACTICE, a battue: the quarry is driven within a radius from which it is impossible for it to escape.
1547. HEYWOOD, The Four P’s [DODSLEY], Old Plays (REED), I. 87. Bendynge his browes as BRODE AS BARNE DURRES.
1679. ‘TOM TICKLEFOOT,’ Trials of Wakeman, 9. My Old Master Clodpate would have been hanged before he would have missed such a BARN-DORE.
2. (cricket).—A player who blocks every ball.
