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boskins

boskins is the plural of boskin.

Meaning of boskin

Noun

boskin (plural boskins)

  1. (Northern England) a partition in a cowshed to separate cattle
    • It had been handed down that Tom Schofield, travelling […] in the 1860s, threw a sack over a boskin (partition) in the byre at the inn where he lodged […].1976, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby, Life & Tradition in West Yorkshire, page 109

Questions about boskins

What is boskins the plural of?
Boskins is the plural of boskin.

Words near boskins in the dictionary

  1. Boskett
  2. boskier
  3. boskiest
  4. boskin
  5. boskiness
  6. boskins
  7. Bosko
  8. Boskoop
  9. Boskopoid
  10. Boskopoids
  11. Boskos

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