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horse-yards

horse-yards is the plural of horse-yard.

Meaning of horse-yard

Noun

horse-yard (plural horse-yards)

  1. (Australia) 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

Questions about horse-yards

What is horse-yards the plural of?
Horse-yards is the plural of horse-yard.

Words near horse-yards in the dictionary

  1. horse-wain
  2. horse-wains
  3. horse-watcher
  4. horse-whispering
  5. horse-yard
  6. horse-yards
  7. horseable
  8. horseapple
  9. horseapples
  10. horseback
  11. horseback opinion

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