linhay

plural linhays · alternative linney · alternative linny

1. dialectalsouth-west UKA shed or other outbuilding, originally open-fronted with a hay loft.

   [S]he went to the linhay, or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling.

   1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 145

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   Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.

   1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, section III

   While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries.

   1917, John Galsworthy, Beyond