Byre vs X - What's the difference?
byre | x |
(chiefly, British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 * 1999:' "The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow '''byres and barns." — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition).
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun byre
is (chiefly|british) a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.byre
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘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. […]’}}