Definitions

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  • noun An enclosure for cows close by the farm.

Etymologies

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From cow +‎ yard.

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Examples

  • Just outside the cowyard was a pile of old boards.

    Bowser the Hound 1919

  • Behind a pile of old boards just outside the cowyard was a spot of red.

    Bowser the Hound 1919

  • He had discovered that the woman who had found him lying in the road and had brought him home was a Mrs. Warner, that her husband was away from home that day on business, and that all the people moving about the cowyard were the sons and daughters of the house, with the exception of an old black fellow who had only one eye.

    The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Bessie Marchant 1901

  • Some old hand like father, as had been assigned to a dairy settler, and spent all his mornings in the cowyard, had taken to the bush and tried his hand at sticking up people.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another latitude, is not extravagant like the cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time.

    Walden 2004

  • At last Bart, Fenn and a few others managed to reach the outside small door, and rushed into the disused cowyard.

    Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods Allen Chapman

  • "That's the stuff, boys!" called Constable Stickler, who with a crowd of others was in the cowyard, removing such things as the boys pushed or tossed out, for they found many small objects they could save.

    The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck Frank V. Webster

  • "I'll go and send some men around to the cowyard."

    The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck Frank V. Webster

  • Often, in the cowyard, I would say to the dumb creatures before me,

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • They turned and saw nothing but the high board fence of the cowyard, and, over by the barn, the Toyman, walking very swiftly towards his workshop.

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

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