cowshed
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- noun
- /ˈkaʊˌʃɛd/
- UK
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establo
- The farmer built a new cowshed to accommodate the growing herd of dairy cows.
- going to the cowshed
Examples
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It's actually a cowshed.
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You need to be able to harvest the milk, and as the video below shows, a mobile cowshed does not need to be expensive and can be very basic.
Blog text (15) -
Just like a standard dairy farm, you will need 50 cows, a cowshed, and some land.
Blog text (15) -
"But we don't need clean hands," Michael argued, "we're going to the cowshed to play with the pigs."
Fiction book (1991) -
Because the cows will be milked with a mobile cowshed, you can move the herd from block to block.
Blog text (15) -
Well, what are you doing creeping around a cowshed at two o'clock in the morning?
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Then the cow would come waltzing into the cowshed and happily give all the milk she had.
Fiction book (1999) -
The cowshed in the video isn't the fastest way to milk cows.
Blog text (15) -
I'm not talking about cows that should be culled for welfare reasons, but on every farm I have worked on, we have had a few cows that seem to live in the sick paddock, close to the cowshed.
Blog text (15) -
I poured the water out of the pot, went to the cowshed and fetched a rubber pipe, attached it to the tap, lifted the empty pot onto the stove, inserted the mouth of the pipe into the pot, and the days of hard labor were over.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A large farm building for storing hay or keeping animals
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A building on a farm where horses or other animals live and are kept safe
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A barn where cows are kept for shelter or milking
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A building where cows are kept
A building, often a barn, where people keep cows
A barn where cows stay for shelter and milking
A building where cows are kept
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Morphology
Etymology
Cowshed is simply cow + shed, meaning 'a shed for cows'. So a cowshed is a small building where cows live or rest and stay safe from bad weather.