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yardland|ˈjɑːdlənd|
Forms: see yard n.2 and land n.1; also 5 Sc. yertland.
[= yard of land, OE. ᵹyrd landes: see yard n.2 10 a.]
1. = yard n.2 10 a.
c1450Godstow Reg. 205 [She] ȝaf & confermyd þe same ȝerdelonde þat reynolde of halso ȝaf to mynchons of Godestow. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 619 Virgata, a yerdlond. 1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 516/2 A Mese, a Yerdland, 111 Acres of Medowe. 1496Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 492/1 Aliam peciam terre prope australem partem dicti tenementi inter le yertland ejusdem et terram quond. dicti Nich. 1517Lincoln Dioc. Doc. (1914) 265, I bequeth to Robert my sone fforethers hous with the yarde londe. 1527in Leadam Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.) II. 17 John Selby..was seased of a Mese a close and di. yeerd land with thappourtenaunces. 1551in Phillipps Wills (c 1830) 199 A hous with on yeardland, lyging in Bloklley. 1581Stanford Churchw. Acc. in Antiquary Apr. (1888) 172 Rec. of parisheoners by the yard lands towards the bell. 1592–3Act 35 Eliz. c. 7 §8 Everie person havinge One Yarde Lande or more in his Possession lying wthin the sayde Fyve Miles [of Oxford]. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. iii. 97 How are the tenants stinted, whether by the yard-land, plow-land, oxe-gang, acres or rent. 1684E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. (ed. 15) i. 17, 30 acres ordinarily make a yard-land. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5487/4 A Messuage, Close, and half a Yard Land. 1720Kennett Monitions & Advices ii. 55 The same worthy Benefactor gave another half yard Land unto the poor People of the Parish of Blaxley. 1740in N. & Q. 7th Ser. I. 244/2 The said Mr. Cooper hath lett to the said John Weston..part of an Estate in Hugglescote, in the name of one Yard Land with Common for the said Yard Land. 1794T. Davis Agric. Wilts 14 The tenantry yard-lands (or customary tenements) which are still subject to rights of common. Ibid. 15 There are many instances where a yard-land of about {pstlg}20 per annum, contains about two acres of meadow land, eighteen acres of arable.., and a right on the common fields..for perhaps forty sheep. 1883Seebohm Engl. Vill. Comm. v. 164 The yard-land was the normal holding of the gebur or villanus.
2. Incorrectly used for yard n.2 10 b.
1542Recorde Gr. Artes K vij, A rodde of lande, whiche some call a roode, some a yarde londe. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 67 A Rood is somtime called..a Yardland, but..very corruptly, for a Yardland containeth much more than an Acre.
3. Comb., as yardland-holder.
1890E. W. Watson Ashmore 31 The two plough-oxen, the universal outfit of the English yardland-holder.
Hence ˈyardlander, a yardland-holder.
1891Athenæum 16 May 632/3 The notes he gives as to the families of the yardlanders are most interesting. 1906N. J. Hone Manor i. i. 11 In 1279 a yard-lander at Newington, Oxon, was bound to plough an acre of winter tillage. 1964H. P. R. Finberg Lucerna ii. 32 It would obviously make for convenience to group the strips of each yardlander. |