byre

[ UK /bˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a barn for cows
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How To Use byre In A Sentence

  • I took the plastic tablecloth off my “raised bed” – under which it had spent the winter – and was so struck by the lovely softness of the soil that I confected a second bed with odds and ends of wood from the byre. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The England they had shaped was still sufficiently intact to be recognisable as at least the grandchild of its ancient self - hedges and lanes, ponds and woods, barns and byres and trees.
  • Firefighters change en route, as they bowl down the Byres Road or hurtle along the motorway.
  • The concrete hut in a dip in the hills is like a cattle byre.
  • This poverty was glaringly obvious in rural churches, which were no better than byres, and christening, marriage, and burial dues, which were deeply resented.
  • He loves the warmth and passes the afternoons in a suntrap in the lee of the byre. Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
  • He'd have to hunt more carefully, try the byre and the hen coop and the backhouse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • They are put in the byres (cow sheds) for the winter period, and our byre is literally 2ft away from the back of the house.
  • The smell comes from the byres, past and present, that press about the yard.
  • He mixed in antiquarian circles, copied Antique frescoes, and painted a celebrated portrait of the Scottish cicerone James Byres and his family.
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