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cowbarn

noun

Etymology

From cow + barn.

  1. derived from *h₁erh₁-✻
  2. derived from *razną✻
  3. derived from *raʀn✻
  4. derived from berern
  5. inherited from bearn
  6. inherited from barn
  7. compounded as cowbarn — “cow + barn”

Definitions

  1. A barn for cows.

    • 275 feet of pipes have been laid from dairy to cowbarn to convey the milk after it has passed through the Separator, back to the barn, while it is still warm just right for the calves.
    • They found an old coat of his this morning on the bank by Manter’s cowbarn,—boy brought it up to the rectory; […]
    • Here, as has been mentioned, the manure from the cowbarns is thrown out daily and dried in the sunshine, a process favored through the greater part of the year by the aridity of the climate.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA