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lichyards

lichyards is the plural of lichyard.

Meaning of lichyard

Noun

lichyard (plural lichyards)

  1. (literary) A graveyard.
    • The last sleep that my love slept
      Shall last till Judgment Day,
      In corner of the lichyard close,
      'Neath drooping boughs of May.1893, Anne Reeve Aldrich, “A Ballad of Slumber”, in Nadine and Other Poems, page 20

Questions about lichyards

What is lichyards the plural of?
Lichyards is the plural of lichyard.

Words near lichyards in the dictionary

  1. Lichwan
  2. lichway
  3. lichways
  4. lichwort
  5. lichyard
  6. lichyards
  7. Licinian
  8. licinine
  9. licinines
  10. licit
  11. licitation

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