A house in which cows are sheltered or stabled; a cowshed, byre or shippon.
1530. Palsgr., 209/2. Cowe house, uacherie.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 243/2. In the Cow-House, a Boosee is the space between Range and Cratch.
1760–72. trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy. (ed. 3), I. 235. I was obliged to remain in a cow-house on that mountain.
1883. Daily News, 3 Oct., 2/2. A great variety of cowhouse fittings.
