cow-housen.
A house in which cows are sheltered or stabled; a cowshed, byre, or shippon.
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byrea800
shipponc900
neat-house1440
oxhousea1475
fee-house1483
cow-house1530
neatery1647
cow-stable1648
mistal1673
hemel1717
bull-house1808
barn-cellar1842
tie-up1851
cow-shippon1859
bullock-shed1865
cow-shed1886
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 209/2 Cowe house, uacherie.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 243/2 In the Cow-House, a Boosee is the space between Range and Cratch.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 235 I was obliged to remain in a cow-house on that mountain.
1883 Daily News 3 Oct. 2/2 A great variety of cowhouse fittings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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