linhay
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of linhay
Compare dial. (SW England, Ireland) linhay shed, open building; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
At the linhay door she knocked, again getting an impatient answer.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
In haste he pushed the box and what was in it under some brushwood which lay in the linhay; but Jack had been already seen.
From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Take the rope, coil it as you run, and hang it back in the linhay, quick!
From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A week after her visit to the linhay he, while sitting alone there, had turned her picture about on the easel, withdrawn its face from the wall and studied his work.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
