Monday

Re: Monday

Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly.....

Lee

Re: Monday

If I were Irish, I'd croft a reply.

Re: Monday

My grandfather locked his cows in place with stanchons, but more modern facilities use milking parlors where the cows parade from the feed lot single file through a narrow alley of pipe and get locked in place with gates while the attendants on a slightly lower level hook up the milkers. When the milking is complete they are sent outside or returned to an empty pen.

Lee

Yur on the right wavelength laddy

I can't argue

with a modern facility but I was hoping for a name given to a space in a more traditional barn. I have no idea if the modern type barn calls it what it was once called. For what I'm looking for there is a Irish/English spelling and one that was used by Americans/PA Germans who changed it slightly. Either one will suffice.

Re: Monday

The first answer that came to mind was a Scot's word for a cow barn, but there was also a Dutch version of the word that, once corrupted into English, led to the naming of a rather disreputable district in New York City. (And also a series of movies starring Huntz Hall and Leo Gorsey.)

Fred Nelson

Under clear, blue skies in Eastern Missouri

Re: Monday answer

John and Frederick I believe know the answer John led earlier with Scotch/Irish and Frederick with Scotland. Both nations use the term. The place for cows is called a byre. In America if anyone remembers the word it is sometimes called a bye. The word originally comes from the old English and has a word associated tie to the term for an unadorned building. Someone with a OED can verify that if they have one handy. Byre can also refer to the lower floor of a barn (mostly in American usage) but a byre is distinct from a sheep pen or a stable which is supposedly the horse�s domain. Wordsworth in 1805 used the term �Long ere heat of noon from byre or field the kine (cattle or cow) are brought.� The Scots use the term �to muck the byre� as a euphemism for �to cleanse�. Source: "The Barn", Eric Arthur and Dudley Witney, p16.