Boskin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a partition in a cowshed to separate cattle Northern-England

    "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 […]."

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"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 […]."

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