- A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc.
- A building for workers to rest in.
- (agriculture, historical) A building on a farm, sometimes with just one room, for (usually unmarried male) farmworkers or other labourers to live in.
☞ The Gaelic festival of Samhain, which marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, begins on the night of 31 October and extends to 1 November.
Doune Bothy - geograph.org.uk - 4000360.jpg
A bothy (sense 1) in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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I don’t know how useful it will be but always interesting to add a new word to the vocabulary.
