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yerd

yerd noun: a yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.

Noun

yerd (plural yerds)

  1. (obsolete) A yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
    • James Sympson, buryed in the yerd, xxvj may1899, The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society
    • "William Luff, fysherman, of the parishe of St Clementes in Hastyng . . . My body to be buryed in the church yerd of st Clementes” 17 Jun. 1545.1902, Sussex Record Society - Volume 42, page 282
  2. (obsolete) A yard (unit of measurement); three feet.
    • (15 aprill 1550 ) Such Napery as was in the church the same day one towell of holand of iij yerdes dimidium long & yerd brode one towell of calicow cloth / v yerdes a quarter long & dimidium yerd brode1910, Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, page 174
    • It 1 towell diaper olde 2 yerds di. yerd brede1941, Louth (England). St. James's Church, Reginald Charles Dudding, The First Churchwardens' Book of Louth, 1500-1524, page 171

Verb (1)

yerd (third-person singular simple present yerds, present participle yerding, simple past and past participle yerded)

  1. (obsolete) To bury or be buried.
    • To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel.1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419
    • and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me.1877, John Cheap the Chapman's Library, page 7

Verb (2)

yerd

  1. Heard.
    • But seein this postman made me think ov a tale ut aw yerd obeawt one e Howcom.1857, Oud John, A Yewud Chap's Trip to Manchister to see Prince Halbert, page 12
    • Missis, says one, dunnot be so cuttin - yoar as keen as yoar mestur. Un, to be comfortable neaw; han yoa yerd th' news?1860, Bobby Shuttle, Bobby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Manchester, page 34

Examples of yerd in a sentence

  • Robert Shertecliff for cheife rent of his tane yerd which he bought of my Lord pro dimidio anno xiid .1981, David Postles, Sheffield in 1581, page 20:
  • Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same.1923, George Forrest Browne, Echt-Forbes Family Charters 1345-1727, page 50:
  • At Baguley that burn his biding-place he had; His ancestors of old time have yerded there long, Before William Conqueror this country inhabited.1991, Emrys Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, page 73:
  • I're a little bit gloppent i' th' mornin when I wakkent; an' yerd what I took to be a whul hive o' hummabees buzzin i' th' window.1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ben Brierley's Works: Ab-o'th', page 71:

Forms of yerd

Noun
pluralyerds
Verb
third-person singular presentyerds
present participleyerding
past participleyerded
pastyerded

Origin of yerd

Inherited from Middle English yerd (“yard”).

Pronunciation dialect

Questions about yerd

What does yerd mean?
Yerd means a yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
How do you use yerd in a sentence?
Robert Shertecliff for cheife rent of his tane yerd which he bought of my Lord pro dimidio anno xiid .
What part of speech is yerd?
Yerd can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of yerd?
The plural of yerd is yerds.

Words near yerd in the dictionary

  1. yerbas
  2. yerbs
  3. Yerby
  4. Yerbys
  5. yercum
  6. yerd
  7. yerded
  8. yerding
  9. Yerdon
  10. Yerdons
  11. yerds

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