Definition of "byre"
byre
/ˈbaɪɚ/
noun
plural byres
(chiefly Britain) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
Quotations
’Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess