Definition of "linhay"

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

[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

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