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'.

Coordinate terms

• byre
• laithe
• rudster