cowshed

«cowshed» in Mova's school dictionary: a farm building where cows are kept, fed or milked… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a cowshed, cowsheds)

meaning for a pupil

A cowshed is a farm building where cows are kept, fed or milked, especially in winter. tree →

sense in the lessons

In farm stories, nursery books and lessons on where food comes from: cows shelter, eat hay and are milked in the cowshed or milking parlour. In stories, a messy room is sometimes compared to a cowshed.

examples

• The farmer led the cows into the cowshed before the storm. tree →
• The cowshed smelled of hay and milk. tree →
• In winter the cows stay in the cowshed. tree →
• We saw the calves in the cowshed on our school trip. tree →
• Your bedroom looks like a cowshed! said Mum. tree →
• The old cowshed has been turned into a holiday cottage. tree →
• Then he would go into the cowsheds and unfasten the chains that fixed each beast in its own stall, and let them fall with a heavy clang to the ground. tree →

note

Countable. One word (cowshed); some write cow shed. Similar buildings: barn (for hay or animals), byre (old or Scottish word for cowshed), stable (for horses).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cowshed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.