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green-yard

green-yard is the alternative form of greenyard.

Meaning of greenyard

Noun

greenyard (plural greenyards)

  1. (UK) A pound used for the reception of stray animals.
    • Enclosed by a high wall, the site included a greenyard for holding stray cattle, later used as a stoneyard, and there was also a stone-faced brick watch-box.2008, “Rosebery Avenue”, in Philip Temple, editor, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville (Survey of London; 47), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 125
  2. A yard designed for training hounds.
    • To save a good deal of this pulling and hauling about, the couples may first be put on them in the green-yard, for an hour or two in the morning and afternoon; but they must never be left for a moment out of the feeder’s or huntsman’s sight, […]1868, Scrutator [William Knightley Horlock], The Science of Foxhunting and Management of the Kennel, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 48

Forms of green-yard

pluralgreen-yards

Questions about green-yard

What is green-yard the alternative form of?
Green-yard is the alternative form of greenyard.

Words near green-yard in the dictionary

  1. green-winged teal
  2. green-winged teals
  3. green-wings
  4. green-wood
  5. green-woods
  6. green-yard
  7. green-yards
  8. green-yellow
  9. green-yellows
  10. Green.
  11. greenable

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