Definition of "cow-house" [cow-house]

• A house or building in which cows are kept or stabled. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Roland saw fragments of Gothic pillars richly carved, occupying the place of door-posts to the meanest huts; and here and there a mutilated statue, inverted or laid on its side, made the door-post, or threshold, of a wretched cow-house."
• "She then undid the gates of the tower, and made towards the byre, or cow-house, which stood in one corner of the courtyard."
• "So saying, she locked and double-locked both the inward and outward door of the tower, proceeded to the cow-house, turned out the cattle, and, giving the knight his own horse to lead, drove them before her out at the court-yard gate, intending to return for her own palfrey."