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cowshed

WordNet
A cowshed in winter. The cows eat turnips and are milked. In the middle of the stable, vagrants have made a fire to warm themselves. It's snowing outside.
A cowshed in winter. The cows eat turnips and are milked. In the middle of the stable, vagrants have made a fire to warm themselves. It's snowing outside.
  1. (n) cowshed
    a barn for cows
Illustrations
A cowshed with two cows. A woman is pouring milk into a jug. A man walks in the doorway.
A cowshed with two cows. A woman is pouring milk into a jug. A man walks in the doorway.
In a cowshed, a servant startles a farm girl by grabbing her chair from behind. Two cows are watching, barrels, baskets and a large pot lie on the ground.
Courtship in a cowshed
Usage in the news

Cowshed Spa at Soho Beach House. miami.com

For a romp through the English countryside, there's no need to cross the pond compliments of Cowshed Spa at Soho Beach House. miami.com

Showers are stocked with the house spa 's divine-smelling Cowshed toiletries, but to really appreciate the products—originally created for the group's Somerset retreat, Babington House—book into one of the four elegant treatment rooms. timeoutny.com

Usage in literature

They visited the smallest, a cowshed. "The Revolt on Venus" by Carey Rockwell

That's one of the shacks over there and the other one he uses for a cowshed. "David Lannarck, Midget" by George S. Harney

Something rose mistily before them; it turned out to be a cowshed. "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston

Here they saw a farmer coming from a cowshed with a pail of foaming milk, and accosted him. "The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island" by Edward Stratemeyer

It was only a cowshed, certainly, but it was blazing very nicely, and well worth looking at. "The Magic Pudding" by Norman Lindsay

Between them stood the cowsheds and the hayricks. "Roosevelt in the Bad Lands" by Hermann Hagedorn

Knowing that the door was always on the latch, I decided to go straight into the house, after tying our cow up in the cowshed. "Nobody's Boy" by Hector Malot

Got a bit of shelter in a cowshed in a field. "The Escape of a Princess Pat" by George Pearson

An empty cowshed outside served as an operating-theatre. "The Unveiling of Lhasa" by Edmund Candler

We got away in the confusion, and made for a cowshed lying well back from the road and on the slope of the hill. "The Day of Wrath" by Louis Tracy

Usage in poetry
And when I woke up —in a cowshed —
The Mayor's wife smiling and pleasant
Had brought me a pair of crutches
And a " YO YO " for a present!
"One Over The Eight (Football Score!)" by T W Connor