Dictionary

cowhouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English cowhous, cowehous, equivalent to cow + house.

Meanings

1. A house (barn or shed) for keeping cows.
   • A colony of Elves had taken up their abode under the floor of the cowhouse, or, it is more likely, were there before it was made a cowhouse. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 138:
   • When he had churned some time he recollected that the cow, which they kept at home, hadn't been let out of the cow-house, and hadn't had a straw of hay or anything to drink, although it was late in the day. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 42:

Forms

Coordinates

hoghouse · horsebarn · henhouse

Hypernyms

outbuilding · barn · house

Synonyms

cowshed · cowbarn · byre