byre

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byre /baɪə $ baɪr/ noun [countable]  TATBB British English old-fashioned a farm building in which cattle are kept 牛棚 SYN cowshed

Examples from the Corpus

byre• They will search every farm, byre, barn, store, cowshed and pigsty until they reach the ten-mile ring.• The inn was a small cluster of a place, stables, byres, outhouses.• Stars winked from the metal as she faced him across the byre.• Then she shut us in the byre - and we stayed there a long time!• I took them into the byre so that they could shelter from the rain.• The other end had a hook which he fitted into a ring on the byre wall.• The conversation had died and the silence was almost oppressive as we opened the byre door.• Now it could go straight to the byre.

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byre
byre /baɪə $ baɪr/ noun [countable]
British English old-fashioned a farm building in which cattle are kept
   SYN  cowshed

byreBrE /ˈbaɪə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbaɪər/ 🔊 noun (old-fashioned, BrE) a farm building in which cows are kept 牛棚 SYN cowshed