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Definition of byre in English: byrenoun ˈbʌɪəˈbaɪ(ə)r British A cowshed. Example sentencesExamples - On one side is the byre, where cattle were housed; the other half of the building is divided into two levels - a small living and eating area too low to stand up in; and above it a loft for sleeping in.
- Joe made his way slowly to the barn and to the cattle byre where the milk cow stood in her stall, chomping at the hay.
- The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
- When we got there it was hanging in a farm byre with water running down it and holes in it, so I had to make a decision there and then.
- And they knew their way, even into each of their respective stalls in the byres.
- Our house was a byre which was first converted into a tearoom when the place was a children's farm park, and later became a cottage for the owner.
- The England they had shaped was still sufficiently intact to be recognisable as at least the grandchild of its ancient self - hedges and lanes, ponds and woods, barns and byres and trees.
- She's converted a local byre (an animal house) into a wee dwelling - a simple, one-room affair with a box bed and a raised hearth, and all the objects that she is using have been meticulously researched and sourced.
- On the farm, smells tended to be pungent; dung being removed from the cow byre, stable, pig sty or poultry house, rated high in that league.
- The concrete hut in a dip in the hills is like a cattle byre.
- This poverty was glaringly obvious in rural churches, which were no better than byres, and christening, marriage, and burial dues, which were deeply resented.
- However, the way things are developing in this country's byres, fields, piggeries and abattoirs, even those dates, some six weeks away, might be too soon, as the Irish ban is unlikely to be lifted by then.
- The harness was still hanging in the stables and the milking equipment was still in the byre.
- It was at this time of the year that the cattle would be brought down from the hills for the coming winter, to be either sheltered in byres or slaughtered for meat.
- The smell comes from the byres, past and present, that press about the yard.
- They are put in the byres (cow sheds) for the winter period, and our byre is literally 2ft away from the back of the house.
- His farm diversification enterprise pre-dates the buzz-trend, for he developed his interest playing guitar with a friend in a cow byres on his family's farm.
- Parts of the property date back to the 1770s, when it was a three-bedroom farmhouse with two reception rooms - a dining room and a sitting room - with a byre attached.
- Some are simply dwellings, others are dwellings with a barn attached, still others have three components in the form of a central dwelling with a barn at one end and a byre at the other.
- A byre was added to the end of the original farmhouse, and an entrance in the gable was served by a narrow paved passage, through which animals would be funnelled one by one into the byre.
Origin Old English bȳre; perhaps related to bower1. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah Definition of byre in US English: byrenounˈbaɪ(ə)rˈbī(ə)r British A cowshed. Example sentencesExamples - They are put in the byres (cow sheds) for the winter period, and our byre is literally 2ft away from the back of the house.
- However, the way things are developing in this country's byres, fields, piggeries and abattoirs, even those dates, some six weeks away, might be too soon, as the Irish ban is unlikely to be lifted by then.
- The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
- This poverty was glaringly obvious in rural churches, which were no better than byres, and christening, marriage, and burial dues, which were deeply resented.
- Some are simply dwellings, others are dwellings with a barn attached, still others have three components in the form of a central dwelling with a barn at one end and a byre at the other.
- Joe made his way slowly to the barn and to the cattle byre where the milk cow stood in her stall, chomping at the hay.
- It was at this time of the year that the cattle would be brought down from the hills for the coming winter, to be either sheltered in byres or slaughtered for meat.
- She's converted a local byre (an animal house) into a wee dwelling - a simple, one-room affair with a box bed and a raised hearth, and all the objects that she is using have been meticulously researched and sourced.
- And they knew their way, even into each of their respective stalls in the byres.
- On the farm, smells tended to be pungent; dung being removed from the cow byre, stable, pig sty or poultry house, rated high in that league.
- The England they had shaped was still sufficiently intact to be recognisable as at least the grandchild of its ancient self - hedges and lanes, ponds and woods, barns and byres and trees.
- On one side is the byre, where cattle were housed; the other half of the building is divided into two levels - a small living and eating area too low to stand up in; and above it a loft for sleeping in.
- Parts of the property date back to the 1770s, when it was a three-bedroom farmhouse with two reception rooms - a dining room and a sitting room - with a byre attached.
- A byre was added to the end of the original farmhouse, and an entrance in the gable was served by a narrow paved passage, through which animals would be funnelled one by one into the byre.
- The concrete hut in a dip in the hills is like a cattle byre.
- When we got there it was hanging in a farm byre with water running down it and holes in it, so I had to make a decision there and then.
- The smell comes from the byres, past and present, that press about the yard.
- The harness was still hanging in the stables and the milking equipment was still in the byre.
- Our house was a byre which was first converted into a tearoom when the place was a children's farm park, and later became a cottage for the owner.
- His farm diversification enterprise pre-dates the buzz-trend, for he developed his interest playing guitar with a friend in a cow byres on his family's farm.
Origin Old English bȳre; perhaps related to bower. |