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rickyard

rickyard noun: a farmyard where hayricks are stored.

Noun

rickyard (plural rickyards)

  1. A farmyard where hayricks are stored.
    • ... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows.1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Bleak House

Forms of rickyard

pluralrickyards

Origin of rickyard

From rick + yard.

Questions about rickyard

What does rickyard mean?
Rickyard means a farmyard where hayricks are stored.
What part of speech is rickyard?
Rickyard is a noun.
What is the plural of rickyard?
The plural of rickyard is rickyards.

Words near rickyard in the dictionary

  1. rickstands
  2. Rickster
  3. rickturnerite
  4. Rickwood
  5. Ricky
  6. rickyard
  7. rickyards
  8. RickyLeaks
  9. Ricla
  10. RICO
  11. Rico Suave

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