byre

1 Twice has this cow been in calf in your byre, and each time she missed.

2 Meanwhile, the prisoner, Watson, was put under the guardianship of a dragoon, and lodged in a small byre attached to the gavel of the dwelling-house.

3 On the east side, in front of the house, a barn stands clear of the ground on staddle stones; and opposite is the cow byre.

4 Then taking a great axe in his hand he went out to visit his cow in her byre.

5 "That must be the cowhouse byre, don't you call it?"

6 There was a church near the byre, but Gl�mr never crossed the threshold; he hated psalmody; apparently he was an indifferent Christian.

7 The research suggest both the barn and the byre and stable were also his work.

8 Very often they slept in the barn of the farm-house—or even sometimes in a clean corner of the cows' "byre."

9 Over the years, previous residents of the byre had included a cow, a donkey and a pig.

10 The dung of the byre, again, is cleared several times each day, and deposited in the dung-court.

11 Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.

12 The westward part of the cottage was a byre: we could hear the lowing of a cow, the clucking of fowls.

13 The lucky among us had early found quarters in byres and cattle-sheds, where the closely packed animals kept the place warm.

14 The travelers lost no time in helping themselves to Medwyn’s provisions, or in finding the byre.

15 Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we.

16 Besides, farmers are now more exacting than formerly; they will not put up with the byres that served their fathers.

17 It was then that a flash of lightning illuminated the byre, and in the light, Dunstan saw something small and hairy in the corner, wearing a large floppy hat.

18 The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

19 They would have had to sleep in barns and byres, under the hayricks and out on the heather.

20 Kent evicted the cow, and turned the byre into his studio.

1 牛棚

standing stall tie-up shippon cowshed cattle shed cow-house bullpen stable stabling shippen neat house neat-house cowhouse lairage mistal

2 牛栏

oxfence stable kraal pinfold bullpen cattle pen