bothy
bothy
Definition
bothy (bät̸h′ē)
noun pl. -·ies
Chiefly Scot. a cottage or hut
bothy
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- maintain: Many climbers and walkers owe their lives to the shelter afforded by MBA maintained bothies.
- use: We have recently started using a second bothy in the Borders for the initial bothy venture.
- have: Rather strangely, this was actually the first night I'd spent where I didn't have a bothy to cook in.
- leave: The next morning, I awoke to glorious sunshine and left the bothy, singing an old Paul Simon song as I went.
- find: From the top of the bank a few sheets of corrugated iron were seen protruding and dropping down we found the bothy.
Adjective modifier
- remote: Or a sumptuous picnic using delicious Scottish produce in a remote mountain bothy.
- open: Please note therefore that this building is no longer an open bothy.
- new: My own area is always under pressure to provide new bothies, especially along the Southern Upland Way.
- old: In the early days some folk used old bothies.
- small: Only once did it rain seriously and then, with the same good luck, I stumbled on a small isolated bothy.
Modifies a noun
- ballad: At any rate, from 1930 to 1938 Morris recorded over 40 bothy ballads with Beltona.
- trip: For more information on planning a bothy trip, talk to Grahame, Damian, or Franco.
- book: The bothy has now had some visitors and the bothy log book shows that people are beginning to enjoy the new bothy.
- maintenance: Like all charities, the MBA relies on public goodwill for funding as well as to help with the physical work of bothy maintenance.
- singer: She took up the fiddle when she was eight and began singing after hearing the great bothy ballad singers Jock Duncan and Geordie Murison.
- night: A few Marilyns and a bothy night fair makes a good weekend ( for me anyway ).
Noun used with modifier
- mountain: Longer courses will include an over night expedition in a mountain bothy, wild camping or in a " bivy " .
- salmon: Icehouses were usually situated close to salmon fishing bothies.
Preposition: in
- area: Minor maintenance where necessary has been carried out of late an all the bothies in the Area.
Preposition: for
- night: Then it's up to the top, and back down to the bothy for a night 's kip.
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