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byre

[ UK /bˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a barn for cows

How To Use byre In A Sentence

  • The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
  • We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • She's converted a local byre (an animal house) into a wee dwelling - a simple, one-room affair with a box bed and a raised hearth, and all the objects that she is using have been meticulously researched and sourced.
  • On the farm, smells tended to be pungent; dung being removed from the cow byre, stable, pig sty or poultry house, rated high in that league.
  • The inn was a small cluster of a place, stables, byres, outhouses.
  • Our house was a byre which was first converted into a tearoom when the place was a children's farm park, and later became a cottage for the owner.
  • He put down the spoon and fled to the byre, his eyes glistening with tears. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
  • Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • His farm diversification enterprise pre-dates the buzz-trend, for he developed his interest playing guitar with a friend in a cow byres on his family's farm.
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