byre

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'It's only a glorified stone cattle-byre, and an intensified stone Kaffir hut,' Spenser commented.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A barn for cows.

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  • At the end of the barn opposite the byre was a cot, layered in quilts. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • How he found to his amazement that the byre was under the same roof with the farmer's kitchen, and only separated therefrom by a wooden partition with a door in it. —  Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication
  • The uneasy cattle were lowing in the byre, and the rain fell in great drops from the leafless trees--fell on the cold wet earth, and the fire on the hearth was out, and cold white ash marked where nevermore would peat be lighted; and oh! —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • 'It's only a glorified stone cattle-byre, and an intensified stone Kaffir hut,' Spenser commented. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
  • There were three cows in the byre, and she had called them after her aunts. —  Tales of the Ridings
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English bȳre; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots, one of the many different applications of the Scandinavian form of English bower, orig. a dwelling, Anglo-Saxon būr, a dwelling, = Icelandic būr, a pantry, =Swedish bur, a cage, Swedish dial. bur, a house, cottage, pantry, granary, = Danish bur, a cage: see bower, and cf. bow.
 

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