What's the difference between bothy and cottage?

Bothy


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Boothy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2012, the roof of Glen Licht House bothy sustained serious damage and if not repaired quickly, the interior will be fall into disrepair.
  • (2) These continental huts may even offer a little luxury (beds with mattresses, flushing toilets, the occasional shower and even on-site catering) but we in the UK have something even better and, what’s more, completely free, with no booking required: bothies.
  • (3) If the river is safe to cross, then do so and make the short few steps past the barn and outbuildings up to Glencoul bothy.
  • (4) There is a long history of people coming here to build their makeshift beach bothies along the shoreline, making use of whatever materials the waves deposit among the giant pebbles.
  • (5) Not only would she supply me with the kit I needed, she’d pick me up from Barnstaple station, deposit me at the bothy, unload the gear, then return to pick me up three days later.
  • (6) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
  • (7) This being rain-sodden rural Devon, and the roads being narrow and flooded, the journey took me the best part of 45 minutes each way, and Richard, one of the Bothy's owners, very kindly accompanied me in his four by four for the first stretch, to make sure my ailing Toyota Yaris got through the floods.
  • (8) Getting to the next bothy at Glencoul – a former estate keepers’ residence built by the Duke of Westminster in the 1880s – is also a wilder and more demanding walk than the map may suggest.
  • (9) Then turn left from the bothy to continue to the head of the loch.
  • (10) Upon arrival, you’ll feel almost as though you’ve stumbled into a bothy: there’s usually a collection of tarps or groundsheets left by previous users, occasionally some camping stove gas canisters (usually left because there’s some gas remaining), and even a plastic box containing a visitors’ book and a pen, so you can record your visit.
  • (11) At the bothy, you’ll find plenty of rooms and a stove, making it a great, warm first night.
  • (12) I've slept under snow in Norfolk, in caves in the Lake District, in the wreckage of a crashed 1948 B-29 Superfortress in Derbyshire, on mountaintops in north Wales, beside giant boulders in the Cairngorms and in bothies all over Scotland.
  • (13) Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club’s Bothy Renovation project If you’ve ever watched a Bear Grylls survival programme, the chances are you will know what a bothy is.
  • (14) Effective left atrial pressure and PADH were found to be exponentially correlated with blood volume in bothy hypervolemic and normovolemic dogs.
  • (15) The Slow Adventure Co , Devon Jini Reddy , travel writer Facebook Twitter Pinterest Foreland Bothy, north Devon.
  • (16) Sometimes I'll stay under canvas, at other times I sleep in bothies, under a tarp or in a cave, and sometimes (if I'm very lucky with the weather) I'll manage with nothing but a sleeping bag.
  • (17) With a "new year, new start" mentality, I got down straight to business, and held my laptop up against the bedroom window in an attempt to piggyback onto the wi-fi from the main house where the owners of The Bothy live.
  • (18) Doubles from £64 B&B (two-night minimum in high season); two-night activity package £135pp including B&B, half-day boat trip and choice of kayaking, archery or cycling The Croft Bunkhouse, Bothies and Wigwams, Portnalong The Croft You've a choice of bunkhouse, bothy or wigwam on this 12-acre croft on the wild west coast.
  • (19) The beach bothy was only a short distance from the mini-waterfall where the stream at Horns Cross makes its way down the valley to join the sea, so I had a natural shower on tap.
  • (20) There could probably be no better place to write than The Bothy, if you were a perfect writer, disciplined in his solitude.

Cottage


Definition:

  • (n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
  • (2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
  • (4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
  • (5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
  • (6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
  • (7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
  • (8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
  • (9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
  • (10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
  • (11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
  • (12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
  • (13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
  • (14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
  • (15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
  • (16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
  • (17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
  • (18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
  • (19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
  • (20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?

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