Word.ws English Dictionary

cavyyard

cavyyard is the alternative form of cavallard.

Meaning of cavallard

Noun

cavallard (plural cavallards)

  1. (US, obsolete) A group of horses or mules.
    • Far as the eye could reach the land was all his own; immense herds of cattle and cavallards of horses roamed over the hills; and the rich bottom-lands yielded him fabulous harvests of corn and cotton.1876, Amelia E. Barr, Romances and Realities: Tales of Truth and Fancy, page 35

Forms of cavyyard

pluralcavyyards

Questions about cavyyard

What is cavyyard the alternative form of?
Cavyyard is the alternative form of cavallard.

Words near cavyyard in the dictionary

  1. cavvyard
  2. cavvyards
  3. cavy
  4. cavyard
  5. cavyards
  6. cavyyard
  7. cavyyards
  8. caw
  9. Caw-oy
  10. Cawag
  11. Cawayan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cavyyard (page history and authors); cavallard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cavyyard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cavyyard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.