What is "cowhouse"

Usage examples of "cowhouse".

Conspicuous in black clothes and white shirt-sleeves, the Rector was hewing with an axe at the boarding of a cowhouse, the door end of which was already in flames, and his voice could be heard above the tumult shouting directions to which nobody paid any heed.

But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.

At last Burger stopped at a solitary wooden cowhouse, and he drew a key from his pocket.

His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face immediately brightened on seeing Rostov.

Imagine in the middle of a garden at home coming on a cowhouse or a shanty!

There was old Blaxton, whose cowhouse roof was blown off the other day.

Smith, a tenant of the Duke of Portland, saw Mary Squires in his cowhouse on December 15, 1752.

In the first grey of the dawn we arose and ate a little black bread and very salt bacon, washed down with some execrable coffee, then leading our horses out of the cowhouse in which we had installed them the night before, and from which we had had to turn out a couple of very evil-smelling beasts, we sallied forth to the apparently hopeless task of discovering the direction in which the column had moved.

Moreover, the improvements made by the late Sir Peter Fitzgerald were not only considerable in the way of draining and fencing, but are visible to the naked eye in the shape of some fifty new houses, well and solidly built of stone with slate roofs, sleeping rooms up stairs, properly separated after the most approved fashion, a cowhouse, and other offices required by the Board of Works.

Before retiring to rest the house-father goes to the cowhouse with holy water and consecrated salt, asperges it from without, and then entering, sprinkles every cow.

A ball is then made of the dung, and it is placed over the door of the cowhouse for an increase of cattle.

Bro or a Blaenau would as soon lose a cow from his cowhouse as the football from his portion of the parish.

He was told to bleed one of the herd, boil the blood, and take it to the cowhouse at midnight.

A half a mile or so from town, he turned east, heading toward the dense, twisted thickets near Cowhouse Creek.

When he finally led them into the clearing only a few yards from Cowhouse Creek, Josie sighed with relief.