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outyard

outyard noun: a temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.

Noun

outyard (plural outyards)

  1. A temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.
    • There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69
    • Nowhere was this more evident than when we moved four of her beehives to the outyard.2020, Dave Doroghy, Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist, page 49

Verb

outyard (third-person singular simple present outyards, present participle outyarding, simple past and past participle outyarded)

  1. To gain more yards than.
    • Although Oklahoma outyarded the Jays 339 to 155, Kansas fought magnificently and earned its 13-13 tie. Royal's punting had begun to jell. He kicked four out-of-bounds against the Crimson and Blue.1984, Harold Keith, Forty-Seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 28

Forms of outyard

Noun
pluraloutyards
Verb
third-person singular presentoutyards
present participleoutyarding
past participleoutyarded
pastoutyarded

Origin of outyard

From out- + yard (“enclosed area designated for a specific purpose”).

From out- + yard (“unit of length equal to 3 feet”).

Questions about outyard

What does outyard mean?
Outyard means a temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.
What part of speech is outyard?
Outyard can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of outyard?
The plural of outyard is outyards.

Words near outyard in the dictionary

  1. outwritten
  2. outwrote
  3. outwrought
  4. outwrung
  5. outy
  6. outyard
  7. outyarded
  8. outyarding
  9. outyards
  10. outyell
  11. outyelled

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