Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shed for housing cows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a barn for cows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
barn for keepingcows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a barn for cows
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Examples
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The cowshed is the feeding and the sleeping place for your oxen.
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I remember having the hardest time understanding it was "cowshed" and not "carshed."
Homesick post-doc 2006
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As Maharaj was speaking at length about the plight of residents of Bunsee Trace, located significantly in the Siparia constituency, who had a 'cowshed' for a community centre, he raised a huge photograph of the centre.
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As Maharaj was speaking at length about the plight of residents of Bunsee Trace, located significantly in the Siparia constituency, who had a 'cowshed' for a community centre, he raised a huge photograph of the centre.
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Phred Dvorak/The Wall Street Journal Michiyasu Ogai, shown in his cowshed on July 16, says he got little information about what was happening at the nuclear plant 23 miles away from his tiny farm in Minamisoma.
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Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house.
Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Just an AOP who survived the blitz, 4 years as a Squaddie [@4 bob a day], shoveled Dung @9d/hr in the cowshed, and watched turds go up the ladder and turn into dysentery on the way down [had that too] etc … … on January 23, 2010 at 7: 28 am Furor Teutonicus
Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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It is two decades since Martin and Lizzie Graham, opera-loving entrepreneurs of the most down-to-earth yet dreamy variety, started staging opera in a disused cowshed.
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Even in the context of the bizarre, twisted fairy tale of Michael Jackson's life, the time he spent living in aconverted cowshed in rural Ireland shortly before he died takes some believing.
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Jackson fell in love with County Westmeath and, after a month in the converted cowshed, moved to the equally secluded neighbouring estate of Coolatore, also owned by the Dunnings.
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