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stoneyard

stoneyard noun: a yard where quarried stone is processed.

Noun

stoneyard (plural stoneyards)

  1. A yard where quarried stone is processed.
    • Enclosed by a high wall, the site included a greenyard for holding stray cattle, later used as a stoneyard, and there was also a stone-faced brick watch-box.2008, “Rosebery Avenue”, in Philip Temple, editor, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville (Survey of London; 47), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 125

Forms of stoneyard

pluralstoneyards

Origin of stoneyard

From stone + yard.

Questions about stoneyard

What does stoneyard mean?
Stoneyard means a yard where quarried stone is processed.
What part of speech is stoneyard?
Stoneyard is a noun.
What is the plural of stoneyard?
The plural of stoneyard is stoneyards.

Words near stoneyard in the dictionary

  1. stonewright
  2. stonewrights
  3. stoney
  4. Stoney Sioux
  5. Stoney Stanton
  6. stoneyard
  7. stoneyards
  8. Stoneycombe
  9. Stoneys
  10. Stoneywood
  11. stong

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