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haggart

haggart noun: a farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.

Noun

haggart (plural haggarts)

  1. (Ireland, dated) A farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.
    • the very meadows in which he had assisted at harvest time in filling the load of sweet hay on the car, for the purpose of stacking in the haggart1827 December, Gerald Griffin, “Tales of the Munster Festivals”, in The London Magazine, volume 19, page 493
    • Jack escaped out of a back window which looked into the haggart, where the cows were kept every night.1856 'One of the rakes of Mallow' "Ireland thirty years since" The Sporting Magazine (London: Rogerson & Texford) May 1856, p.366

Proper noun capitalized: Haggart

Haggart (plural Haggarts)

  1. A surname.

Forms of haggart

Noun
pluralhaggarts
Proper noun
pluralHaggarts

Origin of haggart

Variant of Haggard.

Questions about haggart

What does haggart mean?
Haggart means a farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.
What part of speech is haggart?
Haggart can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of haggart?
The plural of haggart is haggarts.

Words near haggart in the dictionary

  1. haggard
  2. Haggardian
  3. haggardly
  4. haggardness
  5. haggards
  6. haggart
  7. haggarts
  8. Hagge
  9. hagged
  10. Haggerston
  11. Haggerty

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