0 a building where cows are kept while they are milked (= have milk taken from them) or where they are kept during winter or bad weather
Both stables and cowsheds had been carefully swept across the yard.
He slept in open fields, in cowsheds, in haystacks, occasionally finding lodging in a convent.
The path, after passing the cowshed, bisected the plantation.
Even the interspersed header courses are essentially decorative, apart from an area of solid fireproof wall, where the cowshed would have joined the pigsty.
The sheer quantity of dung might be staggering in urban areas in an era dominated by horse transport, cowsheds, minor piggeries, middens and cesspits.
Häring's final scheme of 1926 for the pigsty had never before been seen in context, connecting cowshed and barn as originally intended.
