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(Scotland,Ireland, Northumberland) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands, or as a mountain shelter.
1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue, The Macmillan Company:
But civilization had changed that completely. Not one criminal in a thousand now fled to the Highlands or to Wales for refuge. A man demanded the means of food and shelter in his retreat nowadays, and a deserted bothy or a cave on the hillside was out of date.
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 106:
Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.
Then, in the evening of the second day after I had climbed from the pupil of the right eye, I came upon a shepherd's bothy, a sort of beehive of stone, and found in it a cooking pot and a quantity of ground corn.
1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 12:
The Bog Creeper came out her wee bothy so I stood on the toilet seat and Lanna whipped her skirt down to her boots and sat.
