linhay

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linhay (plural linhays)

  1. (dialectal, south-west British) A shed or other outbuilding, originally open-fronted with a hay loft.
    • 1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, section III:
      Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.
    • 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 145:
      [S]he went to the linhay, or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling.
    • 1917, John Galsworthy, Beyond:
      While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries.

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