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cowshed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cowshed
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ausfahrt was pulled roughly into a cowshed.
▪ Conditions are even worse in poorer provinces, where children often are taught under trees or in cowsheds.
▪ I suggest you whitewash out the pigsties and the cowsheds.
▪ It was whitewash, the cheap stuff that is used in cowsheds and stables and hen-houses.
▪ Norton's Coin got back to his cowshed at about 10.30 p.m.
▪ On a smallholding it may be more practical to carry silage to the stock in yard or cowshed.
▪ The efforts farmers have made to control their silage liquors or cowshed washings are equally evident.
▪ They will search every farm, byre, barn, store, cowshed and pigsty until they reach the ten-mile ring.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cowshed

cowshed \cowshed\ n. a barn for cows.

Syn: cowbarn, cow barn, cowhouse.

Wiktionary
cowshed

n. A small barn for keeping cows

WordNet
cowshed

n. a barn for cows [syn: cowbarn, cow barn, cowhouse]

Usage examples of "cowshed".

Though neither the German cleaning his cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov.

It was whitewash, the cheap stuff that is used in cowsheds and stables and hen-houses.

There was mouldy hay in the mangers and dried manure stilll in the cowshed gutters.

What had once been a cowshed was now a small canteen and a suite of three offices with windows looking into the farmyard, from where one could watch the horseboxes come and go, each to and from its own allocated parking space.

The old maiden lady scolded the maids again for allowing the woman (who had just been confined) to lie in the cowshed, and was about to go away, but seeing the baby her heart was touched, and she offered to stand godmother to the little girl, and pity for her little god-daughter induced her to give milk and a little money to the mother, so that she should feed the baby.