cowshed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cowshed
Example Sentences
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A robot slurry scraper travels up and down the cowshed at regular intervals, pushing any manure through the slatted floor into the vast storage pit below.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
He, Hunt, and I were standing in a more recent structure a few feet away, a hangar-size cowshed with a corrugated-metal roof.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018
In Leena Sharma’s case, she ended up with about 37 acres, a portion of which she co-owned with her sister, including farmland, a tiny temple and a ramshackle cowshed.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016
Another day begins at Camp Diamante, with low but strong sunlight on the roof of a cowshed next to our quarters, from which “ranchera” accordion music drifts across the savannah morning.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016
I went closer, darting from cowshed to cowshed and finally up to the wall.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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