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Definition of Linhay
1. a shed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linhay
Literary usage of Linhay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Higham—" Theere 's six rooms in un, three downstairs and three up, besides a
linhay roof, a back kitchen, and a pure tidy size little spence." Exhib. p. ..."
2. Registration Cases: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Charles Henry Hopwood, Court of Common Pleas, John Scott Fox, Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, King's Bench Division, Charles Lacey Smith, Great Britain Court of Appeal, Great Britain, Court of Appeal, High Court of Ju (1868)
"The building was a linhay, open to the field ; there was a crib in it; one side
of the linhay was prolonged, and formed the back of a large tank, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: And the by Octavian Baxter Cameron Harrison, Henry Rutherfurd, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1868)
"... voter occupied a piece of land at the rent of more than 10/., on which there
was a stone building, roofed; the building was a linhay, open to the field, ..."
4. Registration Cases: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Charles Henry Hopwood, Frederick Adolphus Philbrick (1868)
"The building was a linhay, open to the field ; there was a crib in it; one side
of the linhay was prolonged, and formed the back of a large tank, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"With us a cart-shed is always called a cart-linhay, not wagon-linhay. Wagons are
comparatively rare. LIP-IT-A-LOP. Limping. " I zeed 'n komin' alung lip-it- ..."
6. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"Tenders are invited for taking down and rebuilding a linhay at Leylands Farm,
... The linhay in this advertisement was quite an important, detached range of ..."
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