From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbyrebyre /baɪə $ baɪr/ noun [countable] TATBB British English old-fashioned a farm building in which cattle are kept SYN cowshed
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byre• They will search every farm, byre, barn, store, cowshed and pigsty until they reach the ten-mile ring.• The inn was a small cluster of a place, stables, byres, outhouses.• Stars winked from the metal as she faced him across the byre.• Then she shut us in the byre - and we stayed there a long time!• I took them into the byre so that they could shelter from the rain.• The other end had a hook which he fitted into a ring on the byre wall.• The conversation had died and the silence was almost oppressive as we opened the byre door.• Now it could go straight to the byre. 