cow-byre

Darkness was falling by the time we made our halting way to the valley, and the crofter met us with a lantern, leading us to an unused paddock by the cow-byre where we could turn our mounts and the mules loose for the night, piling our saddles and packs under the shelter of a lean-to.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

After this the master of the house came into the cow-byre and said,

Household Tales 2003

"Unless you've been walkin 'knee-deep in the cow-byre."

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

Thus the erect gay-looking blossoms, in contrast to the light green foliage arranged in the form of full blown double roses, lend a picturesque appearance to the roof of even a cow-byre, or a hovel.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Calcareous soils are greatly benefited by a free application to them of manure from the stable and cow-byre; but as a rule it would be like carrying coals to Newcastle to dress these soils with lime.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Sometimes, we came to a clearing with a little shack of logs, a cow-byre, and perhaps a herd of full-fed cattle, with calves frisking about in a series of grotesque and ungainly gambols.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

You must see my little cow-byre some day or other, Joan.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

It brought her over fields near the cow-byre where Barren spent much of his time and kept his picture; and when she saw her footpath must pass the door of the little house, a flutter quickened her pulses and she branched away over the field and proceeded to the cliffs through a gap in the hedge some distance from the byre.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Now he looked round the cow-byre before locking it for the last time and returning the key to Farmer Ford's boy, who waited outside to receive it.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

On many occasions he tramped out from Newlyn with additions to the scanty larder kept at the cow-byre.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911