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 -- 牛棚，牛舍
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.
Earlier they were up there at the cowshed there, but now he feeds them on the doorstep down here.
Farmhands used to work in the fields while maids worked in the cowsheds and on domestic tasks.
Some weeks ago, then he could go out and walk up to the cowshed up there, you k now. 76-year-old wife!
The stables occupied an intermediate level, with large doors to the eastern track, running behind the cowshed.
The subsequent conversion of the cowshed to a pigsty resulted in the loss of what remained of the original interior.
