byre
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[edit] English
[edit] Noun
byre (plural byres)
- (chiefly UK) a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle
- 1999: "The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns." — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition).
[edit] Translations
a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Old English
[edit] Noun
byre m. (nominative plural byras or byre)
- child, son, descendant; young man, youth
- mound
- time, opportunity; occurrence
- strong wind, storm
[edit] Derived
- ambyre — favorable, fair
[edit] Descendant
[edit] Noun2
bȳre n. (nominative plural bȳru)
[edit] Derived
- cūbȳre m — cow-byre, cow-shed
- nēahgebȳren, nēhhegebȳren f — neighbor
[edit] Descendant
- byre, see above
