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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x1)
- The cowshed smelled of hay and milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x2)
- In winter the cows stay in the cowshed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x3)
- We saw the calves in the cowshed on our school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x4)
- Your bedroom looks like a cowshed! said Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x5)
- The old cowshed has been turned into a holiday cottage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowshed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.