bothy

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Now come on to the bothy, and let's get that poor fellow off.

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  • Now come on to the bothy, and let's get that poor fellow off. —  A Life's Eclipse
  • Come along to the bothy, and let's bathe and tie it up. —  First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
  • Let out some of the hot, mad blood Ay," said old Sam, guiding him, for he staggered, to the men's bothy, and bathing and tying up the wound. —  First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
  • In Tantallon we know the Douglasses lived in state, and bearded kings, and hung out banners to the breeze; but a sense of wonder is mingled with our knowledge, for the bothy of the Lothian farmer is even more in accordance with our methods of conducting life. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
  • The other was the head of the "bothy" or boarding-house for hired men, a long low building, with cheerful white-curtained windows, which could be seen just beyond the cow-house As she looked over the broad whiteness of the farmlands, above which the sunset clouds were now tossing in climbing lines of crimson and gold, rising steeply to a zenith of splendour, and opening here and there, amid their tumult, to show a further heaven of untroubled blue--Elizabeth thought with lamentation that their days on the farm were almost done. —  Lady Merton, Colonist
 

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  1. Ultimately from Old Irish both, hut; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/ˈbɑθi/
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