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byre

(bīr)

n. Chiefly British

A barn for cows.

[Middle English, from Old English bȳre; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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byre

(baɪə)

(Agriculture) Brit a shelter for cows

[Old English bӯre; related to būr hut, cottage; see bower¹]

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byre

(baɪ^ər)

n.

Brit. a cow shed.

[before 800; Middle English byre, bere, Old English bȳre, akin to būr hut. See bower¹]

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byre - a barn for cows

cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed

barn - an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

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stalla

byre

[ˈbaɪəʳ] N → establo m

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byre

[ˈbaɪə^r] n (British) → étable f (à vaches)

byre

n → (Kuh)stall m

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byre

[baɪəʳ] n (Brit) → vaccheria, stalla

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Sheep-folds, stables, byres, dairies, and barns were rebuilt after the pattern of the roomy, well-ventilated, and consequently healthy steadings that M.

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They had no time to patch and plaster the rear walls of the empty byres that backed on to the Jungle; the wild pig trampled them down, and the knotty-rooted vines hurried after and threw their elbows over the new-won ground, and the coarse grass bristled behind the vines like the lances of a goblin army following a retreat.

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He led them on and on, through a maze of back kitchens, dairies, larders, and sculleries, that melted along covered ways into a farm-house, visibly older than the main building, which again rambled out among barns, byres, pig-pens, stalls and stables to the dead fields behind.