† wormstalln.
Obsolete.
An outdoor shelter for cattle in warm weather.
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wormstall1601
cow-pen1635
bull-pen1809
cattle-pen1837
bawn1850
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xxxiii Drive thy sheepe and cattaile out of the Sunne, into some worme-stall and place of shade.
1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. ii. A 4 The shelter will..be an excellent wormestall for cattell in the summer.
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 430 Wormstall, shelter for cattle in hot weather.
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n.1601- cast a clod between
- cast a damp
- cast a dash
- cast a discreet veil over
- cast a fetch
- cast a figure, horoscope, nativity
- cast a foin at
- cast a gamond
- cast a girdle about
- cast a girdle round about
- cast a hawk
- cast a horoscope
- cast a laggen-gird
- cast a laggengird
- cast a leglen-girth
- cast a leglengirth
- cast a lure
- cast a mist
- cast a mist before a person's eyes
- cast a mists
- cast a pall on
- cast a pall over
- cast a point of traverse
- cast a reflection
- cast a shadow