byre

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Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. (chiefly, British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,

     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (novel), page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):

     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.

Translations

• French: étable
• German: Kuhstall
• Italian: stalla
• Portuguese: vacaria
• Russian: хлев
• Spanish: establo

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