booley
9.9
A temporary summer pasture or hut in the hills where cattle graze
- noun
- Archaic
:
booley
- The farmer took his cows to the booley high in the hills for the summer.
Examples
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Every summer, the herd would migrate to the booley where fresh grass was plentiful.
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They built a small booley to shelter their cattle while grazing in the fields.
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Did booley birds nest in flim vines?
Fiction book (1998) -
Sally scratched her nose just as a booley bird landed on a vine.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
9.9
A small simple hut used by shepherds on Scottish hills
is mainly land or hut for grazing cattle rather than for shepherds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Booley comes from the Irish word buaile, meaning 'milking place' or 'summer pasture'. So a booley is a small hut or field where farmers lived in summer to graze and milk their cattle.
