boskin

See also: Boškin

English

Noun

boskin (plural boskins)

  1. (Northern England) a partition in a cowshed to separate cattle
    • 1976, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby, Life & Tradition in West Yorkshire, page 109:
      It had been handed down that Tom Schofield, travelling […] in the 1860s, threw a sack over a boskin (partition) in the byre at the inn where he lodged […].
    • 1999, Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West, London: Viking, page 96:
      Inside the barns, the cattle were separated by 'boskins' of timber or stone and tethered to posts known as 'rudsters'.

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