Sentence:  Cows were kept in backyard <WSD>barns</WSD> , boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town , and familiar to the ear , morning and evening , were the boys ' coaxing voices , the thud of hooves , and the thwack of a stick on cowhide . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals