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but and ben

noun

  1. a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen ( but ) and an inner room ( ben )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

But now she had to explain that a “grice” was a pig and that “but” and “ben” meant in and out.

Ben, ben, prep. and adv. in toward the inner apartment of a house.—n. the inner apartment of a house, as opposed to the But or kitchen through which one must generally pass first.—To be far ben with one, to be on terms of great intimacy or friendship with; To live but and ben, to live respectively in these rooms, in close neighbourhood with any one.

They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"�two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory.

Up the close and down the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare.

I have come to tell ye that it is neither Christian nor decent to bring up the wee thing but and ben wi' a kenned ill-doer like Daft Jeremy, that has twice been tried for his life for the shedding of blood!'

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