Meanings
nounboskin (plural boskins)
plural boskins
- Northern Englanda partition in a cowshed to separate cattle
Inside the barns, the cattle were separated by 'boskins' of timber or stone and tethered to posts known as 'rudsters'.
1999, Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West, London: Viking, page 961 more example
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 […].
1976, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby, Life & Tradition in West Yorkshire, page 109
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