Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An open shed attached to a farm-yard.

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  • noun dialectal A shed or other outbuilding.

Etymologies

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Origin uncertain.

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Examples

  • Eustacia had watched the assemblage through the hole; and seeing that now was the proper moment to enter, she went from the "linhay" and boldly pulled the bobbin of the fuelhouse door.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • Many also had a back kitchen or linhay serving as a pantry at the rear of the house, either with a flat roof or a roofline that extended down from the main roof in saltbox style.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • In haste he pushed the box and what was in it under some brushwood which lay in the linhay; but Jack had been already seen.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • Owing to the slope of the ground the roof-eaves of the linhay were here within touch, and he thrust his arm up under them, feeling about in the space on the top of the wall-plate.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Moreover, the linhay itself was full of very ancient cow dung; than which there is no balmier and more maiden soporific.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • But Colonel Kirke only gave command that I should be smitten in the mouth; which office Bob, whom I had flung so hard out of the linhay, performed with great zeal and efficiency.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • ‘This linhay is not yours,’ I said, when they had quite aroused me, with tongue, and hand, and even sword-prick:

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Also I carried some other provisions, grieving much at their coldness: and then I went to the upper linhay, and took our new light pony-sledd, which had been made almost as much for pleasure as for business; though God only knows how our girls could have found any pleasure in bumping along so.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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