noun
definition
A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
Examples of byre in a Sentence
This is the North end of the double byre, now a single byre turned tractor shed.
The 19th century byre had a corn drying kiln built into it.
Townfoot Cottage adjoins the owner's farmhouse and was originally an old farm cow byre.
Cow byre The shop itself is a former cow byre, scrubbed and white washed, but sadly not staffed by milkmaids.
In the 14th century they included a hall, bailiff's chamber, granary, stable, byre, and two granges.
Orchard Farm Cottages 2 comfortable farm cottages converted from a traditional cow byre, retaining the original beams.
Formerly a cow byre, it is of stone construction under a slate roof.
Bramble Byre and Dairy Dell cottages are converted from the original cowshed and dairy.
Thus the buildings forming the residence of a well-to-do farmer of the bo-aire class as described in the Laws, consisted of a living-house in which he slept and took his meals, a cookinghouse, a kiln for drying corn, a barn, a byre for calves, a sheepfold and a pigsty.
He moved there ' to escape from Glasgow ' and started byre Books in a converted byre just off the town's main street.
So too was Thornbank in the Wynd which had a byre and was worked by the Barry brothers.
The record of these recensions is preserved by two epigrams, one of which proceeds from Artemidorus, a grammarian, who lived in the time of Sulla and is said to have been the first editor of these poems. He says, " Bucolic muses, once were ye scattered, but now one byre, one herd is yours."