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Meanings of
byre
in English
Portuguese
curral
Catalan
vaqueria
Spanish
establo de vacas
Back to the meaning
A barn for cows.
cowshed
cowhouse
cowbarn
cow barn
Portuguese
curral
Synonyms
Examples for "
cowshed
"
cowshed
cowhouse
cowbarn
cow barn
Examples for "
cowshed
"
1
A girl went with a bucket from the
cowshed
into the pent-house.
2
There is an excellent
cowshed
,
and it is only a mile away.
3
Unfortunately we cannot make our projectile either a stable or a
cowshed
.
4
The parish hall was about a hundred metres up from the
cowshed
.
5
Behind every house was a pigsty, behind nearly every one a
cowshed
.
1
And then there was life and gayety, both in cabin and
cowhouse
.
2
Then he heard her voice at a distance somewhere near the
cowhouse
.
3
Nothing else-andthere was Tibby moving and beginning to bark in the
cowhouse
.
4
There was old Blaxton, whose
cowhouse
roof was blown off the other day.
5
For goodness' sake, turn the chapel into a
cowhouse
!
'
1
A tunnel transforms into a trench, complete with lazing infantrymen; a
cowbarn
transmogrifies into an estaminet somewhere behind the lines.
1
This
cow
barn
's
going to be some building compared with the hen house.
2
We used a
cow
barn
,
a pigsty, and a sheep field.
3
Loud talking, shouting, or laughing are not looked upon with favor in our
cow
barn
.
4
You'll want some window frames and ventilators, gratings and other things for the
cow
barn
,
too.
5
Couldn't you hurry them up a little so we could get the
cow
barn
under way?
Usage of
byre
in English
1
She was thus sometimes the last to be driven into the
byre
.
2
Like the house the
byre
too had been ruined, gutted with flame.
3
And-except the minister-theother occupants of the
byre
were in an equal terror.
4
She was in the
byre
with a lantern of her own.
5
But as they were leaving the
byre
fresh doubts assailed her.
6
Farther up the
byre
,
Meg leaned her head against Crummy and milked steadily.
7
Ye might have been bred at Court, you as can't muck a
byre
.
8
The conversation in the
byre
proceeded somewhat in this way:
9
She had the shank of the
byre
besom in her hand as she spoke.
10
You are standing there in the shadow of the
byre
.
11
She went to the
byre
door to get the driving-stick to lay on Crummie.
12
As she did so, a figure came slouching round the corner of the
byre
.
13
Outside, in Petersham Park, was a picturesque thatched
byre
where the cows were milked.
14
He went into the
byre
and came out with a great vessel of milk.
15
He notices that the sheep
byre
's
gate has been mended.
16
Can you fetch me in some firewood from the
byre
?
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
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byre
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
clean the byre
build a byre
cover byre
enormous byre
grey byre
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Translations for
byre
Portuguese
curral
Catalan
vaqueria
Spanish
establo de vacas
establo
vaqueriza
Byre
through the time
Byre
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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