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▪ I. ˈcow-ˌpen, n.
A pen or enclosure for cows.
1635Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons p. lxxii, To 11 women 2 days a peece weeding the oates in the cowpenns. 1688J. Clayton in Phil. Trans. XVII. 987 As soon as they were set forth of the Cow-pens, they would fall a feeding. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. li. 384 Driven from time to time into cowpens.
b. Comb. cowpen-bird (U.S.) = cow-bird 2 a.
1826J. Jennings in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1138 There is a bird in the United States of America, called ‘Cowpen’ emberiza pecoris, by Wilson. 1887C. C. Abbott Waste-Land Wand. ii. 55 The cowpen-bird, which is never mated, and for several months in the year deposits fertile eggs in the nests of other birds.
▪ II. ˈcow-pen, v.
To pen cows upon (a piece of ground).
1688J. Clayton Virginia iv. in Phil. Trans. XVII. 979 A fresh piece of Ground..will not bear Tobacco past two or three Years, unless Cow-pen'd; for they Manure their Ground by keeping their Cattle..within Hurdles, which they remove when they have sufficiently dung'd one spot. 1786Washington Diaries (1925) III. 131 [I] plowed a poor ½ acre to Cowpen on. Ibid. 183 About an acre was sown in my meadow, part of which had been cowpened. 1832R. Baird Valley Mississippi xxiv. 286 It grows well on marsh..and even pine barrens, when they are well trodden or cowpenned, as it is termed. 1871–3Texas Almanac 12 Cow-penning, in successive lots..is a good plan for manuring. |