byre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of byre
before 800; Middle English, Old English: barn, shed, variant of būr hut. See bower 1
Example Sentences
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But before starting work on the house, he decided to convert the byre into temporary accommodation.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023
All that remained of the byre was its four walls and two entrances.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023
The byre "like a rotten walnut" is, perhaps, meant to show us what wind and weather ultimately do with human strategies for survival – whether that strategy is a cowshed or a dictionary.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010
To pass in the darka byre like a rotten walnut.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010
The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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