Byre
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Origin
From Old English bȳre
Full definition of byre
Noun
byre
(plural byres)- (chiefly British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 7, ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. …’
- 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).