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boskin en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England) a partition in a cowshed to separate cattle
    • It had been handed down that Tom Schofield, travelling […] in the 1860s, threw a sack over a boskin (partition) in the byre at the inn where he lodged […]. 1976, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby, Life & Tradition in West Yorkshire, page 109:
    • Inside the barns, the cattle were separated by 'boskins' of timber or stone and tethered to posts known as 'rudsters'. 1999, Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West, London: Viking, page 96:

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Coordinates

rudster · byre · laithe