Directions to a drinking place or rural shelters (5)
I believe the answer is:
barns
'rural shelters' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'directions to a drinking place' is the wordplay.
'directions' becomes 'ns' (N is an example).
'to a' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'drinking place' becomes 'bar'.
'ns' put after 'bar' is 'BARNS'.
'or' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for barns that I've seen before include "Farm buildings" , "Agricultural buildings" , "Agricultural outbuildings" , "Storehouses" , "Agricultural outbuilding" .)