cowbarn
WordNet
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(n)
cowbarn
a barn for cows
Usage in literature
It was long, like a cowbarn or chicken house, and my room was third. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by
Usage in poetry
The snow is wasting (pernicious anemia —
See those branching veinlets of impotent blue?)
Yet in the cowbarn life is burbling, steaming,
And the tines of pitchforks simply glow with health.
See those branching veinlets of impotent blue?)
Yet in the cowbarn life is burbling, steaming,
And the tines of pitchforks simply glow with health.
"March" by Boris Pasternak
All doors are flung open — in stable and in cowbarn;
Pigeons peck at oats fallen in the snow;
And the culprit of all this and its life-begetter—
The pile of manure — is pungent with ozone.
Pigeons peck at oats fallen in the snow;
And the culprit of all this and its life-begetter—
The pile of manure — is pungent with ozone.
"March" by Boris Pasternak