Also known as boo
thumb|250px|right|Hekman's boô in Schoonebeek A boô (also spelled boo or boe) is an old Saxon building where a farmer could spend the night with his cattle if he let them graze far outside the village. The buildings, which had separate areas for cattle and farmer to live, were made with cheap materials. Walls were made of straw or braided twigs covered in cow manure or loam; the roofs were also made of straw.
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thumb|250px|right|Hekman's boô in Schoonebeek A boô (also spelled boo or boe) is an old Saxon building where a farmer could spend the night with his cattle if he let them graze far outside the village. The buildings, which had separate areas for cattle and farmer to live, were made with cheap materials. Walls were made of straw or braided twigs covered in cow manure or loam; the roofs were also made of straw.
==Etymology== The word boô is a cognate of the German word 'Bude' which means 'shack'. The circumflex on the second 'o' indicates that a letter is left out. In Danish, 'bo' means house. The word boô is Low German.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “boô” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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