"cowyard" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cow + yard.",
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      "form": "cowyards",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile",
          "text": "On entering the palace we were shown into a cowyard without a tree in it, or any shade; and no one was allowed to sell us food until a present of friendship was paid, after which the hongo would be discussed.",
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          "ref": "1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist",
          "text": "Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto.",
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          "ref": "1912, Walter W. Skeat, English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day",
          "text": "There were no pigeons in the pigeon-house, and nothing but jack-daws; and so, after she had burned the beam, and the door-frame and the floor, she ran into the cowyard, through the small field, and fainted behind several pitchers of yeast.",
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        "An enclosure for cows close by the farm."
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  "word": "cowyard"
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  "etymology_text": "From cow + yard.",
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          "ref": "1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile",
          "text": "On entering the palace we were shown into a cowyard without a tree in it, or any shade; and no one was allowed to sell us food until a present of friendship was paid, after which the hongo would be discussed.",
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          "text": "Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto.",
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          "text": "There were no pigeons in the pigeon-house, and nothing but jack-daws; and so, after she had burned the beam, and the door-frame and the floor, she ran into the cowyard, through the small field, and fainted behind several pitchers of yeast.",
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        "An enclosure for cows close by the farm."
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