empty cow

British

noun

a cow that does not produce calves during the breeding season

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Had Mrs. Pinkney known that after tramping as far as the outskirts of the town, and almost 67 dropping from exhaustion, Sammy had gone to bed on a pile of straw in an empty cow stable, she would have been even more troubled than she was.

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Then he followed Jude into the empty cow stable.

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