cowpen

It appears to be more important to cavil over syntax and word-useage than to call out the wolf in the cowpen ... for shame and awake as in olden times.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Jamie paused by the upper fence of the cowpen, on the rise above the house.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Dere was a gin-house, barns, stables, cowpen and a big bell on top of a high pole at de barn gate.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Vatsa of great might, has been brought up among calves in a cowpen.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Finally I prevailed on this man to move in by giving him a different garden spot, hog-pen and cowpen as these were still nearer the barn.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

About sunset Evelyn insisted on their going out to the cowpen and see her milk.

Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It Hal Standish

"I don't care for no cowpen bonds, but I do want a new drum!"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

Land when hired is forced to bear tobacco by penning their cattle upon it; but cowpen tobacco tastes strong, and that planted in wet marshy land is called nonburning tobacco, which smoaks in the pipe like leather, unless it be of a good age.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Across a ravine lay the cowpen, its walls built entirely of dry manure.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

In the evening James Reed and myself concluded we would go into the cowpen and rope some cows and milk them, after the Ind. fashion, accordingly we made ready our rope, and haltered four cows, and tied their heads up to a steak, and made fast their hind feet and milked them, but did not get much milk on account of not letting their calves to them; so soon as we were done Capt.

Journal of Harrison G. Rogers, member of the company of J. S. Smith 1918