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- noun Plural form of
byre .
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Examples
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It was a time when the sun charmed the land into bringing forth life: green sprouts that blossomed and grew heavy with fruit; razor-winged birds that painted the cliffs with their nests and worked tirelessly to feed their raucous offspring; long-suffering cows and sheep and pigs that emerged from their dark byres to reproduce themselves in miniature.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Among Gogo speakers, regular ancestor propitiations involving beer and prayer were held for those buried in the cattle byres kept in homestead courtyards.
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It was a time when the sun charmed the land into bringing forth life: green sprouts that blossomed and grew heavy with fruit; razor-winged birds that painted the cliffs with their nests and worked tirelessly to feed their raucous offspring; long-suffering cows and sheep and pigs that emerged from their dark byres to reproduce themselves in miniature.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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The muddy fields lay barren of crops; the byres, by their silence, seemed empty of livestock.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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The muddy fields lay barren of crops; the byres, by their silence, seemed empty of livestock.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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The muddy fields lay barren of crops; the byres, by their silence, seemed empty of livestock.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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The muddy fields lay barren of crops; the byres, by their silence, seemed empty of livestock.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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She had raised seven sons in caravans and benders and byres.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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It was a time when the sun charmed the land into bringing forth life: green sprouts that blossomed and grew heavy with fruit; razor-winged birds that painted the cliffs with their nests and worked tirelessly to feed their raucous offspring; long-suffering cows and sheep and pigs that emerged from their dark byres to reproduce themselves in miniature.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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It was a time when the sun charmed the land into bringing forth life: green sprouts that blossomed and grew heavy with fruit; razor-winged birds that painted the cliffs with their nests and worked tirelessly to feed their raucous offspring; long-suffering cows and sheep and pigs that emerged from their dark byres to reproduce themselves in miniature.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
bilby commented on the word byres
Come on Wordies, where are you putting your cows this winter?
December 9, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word byres
One apiece in a beast-house, beef-house, byre, cattle-shed, cow-barton, cow-bing, cow-boosing, cow-byre, cow-hole, cow-house, cow-hovel, cow-hull, cow-lodge, cow-pen, cow-pine, cow-place, cow-shade, cow-shed, cow-shippon, cow-shud, cow-skeeling, cow-stable, cow-stall, cows'-house, hovel, lathe, milk-shed, milking-byre, milking parlour, mistall, neat-house, shed, shelter, shippon, and skeeling, o'course.
December 9, 2008
sionnach commented on the word byres
qroqqa missed the 'a' section, obviously
December 10, 2008