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Byre

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 800, OED Evaluation: Old-English

A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.

ExampleMeaning
At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre?
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre? Interviewer: Ah what's that ah- Speaker: Where you put the cows in? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Like you-know? Ah, we always called it the cow-byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We, ah- they called it- the Scotch people called it cow-byre. (laughs) Interviewer: Is that what you called it? Speaker: Cow-byre. Interviewer: You called it that, did you? Speaker Oh, yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. You said you had another building for the calves though. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: What did they call that? Speaker: Well, the calf-house. (laughs) Interviewer: The calf-house, not the byre? Speaker: No.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Byres and (laughs) you-know. Interviewer: Oh yeah. For the cows, what did you have for the cows? Speaker: Chickens were held with byres. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: You know what a byre is? (inc) Interviewer: What would that be like? Ah, like an ordinary barn? Speaker: Well, it was onto the barn. You see it was a- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Just like a great big shed. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And then off that a byre connected with (inc) to retain your cows in you see. About twelve or thirteen cows in there. Retain them with an egg. Interviewer: Now was it part of the big barn then, or-? Speaker: It was right under it. Interviewer: Underneath the barn? Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: And that was the byre underneath? Speaker: Yes.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: Milked them in the byre. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Did you have a, ah- a building there where you kept the milk? Speaker: Ah, let me see. I think in those days we- we separated our milk. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: With a separator. And sent our cream to the creamery. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Where would you do the separating? Speaker: Oh, I think we done- in the barn cooler. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Near the byre, you-know.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
They knew where- where they stood in the byre rank.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: They get- they get to know you a little in a decent byre, though. Many is the time I worked with, a people milked out in the byre- out of the byre and then out at the barnyard we called it. And these- (inc) is still there. Nice clean place. Interviewer: Mm-hm. So we were going through the buildings weren't we? You've got your- the barn that has the cow byre with it. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: What other little buildings for animals did you have? Or for- did you have a- a s-- separate building for storing the grain? Or did you- Speaker: Oh yes, for the granary. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Oh yes for the granaries- they were right beside the byre. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: By the byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: That's- (laughs) the upper part is the barn, and the upper part is the cow- is the cow-byre. Interviewer: The- the lower part's- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: The cow-b-- Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. The cow-byre, yeah. Interviewer: The cow-byre. Was the- was the cow-byre sometimes separate from the barn? Speaker: Oh yes. That's the proper way to have it too. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What was it made out of? Speaker: Hm? Interviewer: How do- how do you build one of those? Speaker: You just build it up high enough for- about six feet. And then put the roof over. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What- from what? Speaker: Hm? Interviewer: What- what- what'd you make the roof of? Speaker: I (inc) you could ever seem to have to build it with. They could put rafters up, and put a G-roof on like this, do-you-see, or they could put on a- a more flatter one and so on. Interviewer: And that- and that's called a cow-byre? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: That's called a call- cow-byre? Speaker: Right
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Stable, cow byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
That would be the cow byre. Cow byre, that's what they called it. Now they- they don't call it that now you-know. They call it the- well it's just the barn. But it used to be the cow byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
And uh, and the cows, they'd be in the cow-byre and the horses would have the horse-stable-
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.