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  • noun Plural form of cowshed.

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Examples

  • Brownsham, which consists of little more than a couple of cowsheds and a chicken coop, doesn't have a pub, so you'll need to drive down the road to Hartland for a pint and something to eat after your walk.

    Secret beaches of the southwest: Mouthmill Beach 2011

  • But there were no back yards, or, rather, they were covered with one-storey hovels, cowsheds, in which people lived.

    FRYING-PAN ALLEY AND A GLIMPSE OF INFERNO 2010

  • The smells are familiar, nothing repellent, but not enticing either, like the female smells of the cowsheds.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Wilson Agriculture in Coleraine has been given a government grant to support its production of Pasture Mats and Poly Pillows to soothe the afflictions of living in concrete-floored cowsheds.

    Cows Get Mattresses To Help Them Sleep | Impact Lab 2007

  • Houses: one-story country houses, cowsheds, stables, warm and cozy inns with excellent wholesome home cooking.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • The farmhouse had long felt a sterile placestrange, considering it was the hub of a cycle of life that revolved with its fields and cowsheds and stables.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • As a life-long afficionado of names, I can tell you off the top of my head that Alinta is an Aboriginal word for flame; that Byron means born by the cowsheds; and that J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy because he wanted something ‘friendly’ to call his female lead.

    A Rose By Any Other Name « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • As a life-long afficionado of names, I can tell you off the top of my head that Alinta is an Aboriginal word for flame; that Byron means born by the cowsheds; and that J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy because he wanted something ‘friendly’ to call his female lead.

    2008 July 15 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • The farmhouse had long felt a sterile placestrange, considering it was the hub of a cycle of life that revolved with its fields and cowsheds and stables.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • Coming as it did from cowsheds in London and from the surrounding countryside; it “proved," in the eyes of Charles Dickens Jr, "often the source of, or rather, perhaps, the means of spreading, serious epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlatina.”

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

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