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straw yard
1. A yard littered with straw, in which horses and cattle are wintered. Also attrib.
1787W. H. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) II. 378 Cow-par, straw-yard; fold-yard. 1789― Glouc. II. 76 His practice is to buy in large Welch bullocks at Gloucester... He gives them the run of the straw yard the first winter. 1801Farmer's Mag. Aug. 251 Winterers, or straw-yard cattle, intended for next summer's grass. 1844Queen's Regul. Army 371 Horses bought in the Winter, are, generally, subject to diseases in coming from straw-yards, or from the open fields, into Stables. 1904Blackw. Mag. Aug. 185/2 Spacious straw-yards for artillery bullocks.
2. slang. (See quot.)
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 138/2 The night asylums or refuges for the destitute (usually called ‘straw-yards’ by the poor).
3. colloq. A (man's) straw hat.
1900Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 9/2 The same hatter had sold two score ‘strawyards’ by noon to-day.
Hence straw-yarder slang. (See quot.)
1853N. & Q. Ser. i. VII. 342/2 A seaman..said that the captain..had manned his ship with a ‘lot of straw-yarders.’.. I was told that a ‘straw-yarder’ was a man about the docks who had never been to sea. |