gorse-built

Updated: May 27, 2025

And now the half-weaned calves that have been sheltering themselves in a gorse-built hovel against the left-hand wall come out and set up a silly answer to that terrible bark, doubtless supposing that it has reference to buckets of milk.

George Eliot - Adam Bede

And now the half-weaned calves that have been sheltering themselves in a gorse-built hovel against the left-hand wall come out and set up a silly answer to that terrible bark, doubtless supposing that it has reference to buckets of milk.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV