Meaning of boskin | Babel Free

Definitions

a partition in a cowshed to separate cattle

Northern-England

Examples

“It had been handed down that Tom Schofield, travelling […] in the 1860s, threw a sack over a boskin (partition) in the byre at the inn where he lodged […].”

“Inside the barns, the cattle were separated by 'boskins' of timber or stone and tethered to posts known as 'rudsters'.”

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