horse-yard
horse-yard noun: a fenced enclosure or pen for horses.
Noun
horse-yard (plural horse-yards)
- A fenced enclosure or pen for horses.
- But it was some minutes before he proceeded beyond the horse-yard; indeed, he loitered there, though the jackeroo had the night-horse ready saddled […]1901, E. W. Hornung, chapter 4, in The Shadow of a Man, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 56
- Outside the horse-yard, looking through the rails at half a dozen horses, and meditatively stroking his abundant beard, stood Captain Bryne, a well-conditioned man of 50, in a grey alpaca coat and white helmet.1914, Edward S. Sorenson, The Squatter King: A Romance of Bush Life, Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter 3
Forms of horse-yard
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Questions about horse-yard
- What does horse-yard mean?
- Horse-yard means a fenced enclosure or pen for horses.
- What part of speech is horse-yard?
- Horse-yard is a noun.
- What is the plural of horse-yard?
- The plural of horse-yard is horse-yards.
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