oliveyardn.
/ˈɒlɪvˌjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈɑləvˌjɑrd/ Now historical.
An enclosed area of land where olive trees are cultivated.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxiii. 11 So þou schalt done in þi vyneȝerde & in þin olyue ȝerde [a1425 L.V. place of olyue trees; L. oliveto].
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. xxiv. 13 Of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xx. 105 He shall take your fields, your vine-yards, and your olive-yards, and give them to his servants.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 63 We pass'd thro' large Olive yards.
a1704 J. Locke Observ. Growth Vines (1766) 26 All of these are little olives, and used only for oil; they plant them promiscuously in their olive-yards.
1835 C. M. Sedgwick Linwoods I. v. 90 No man has a right to that for which he did not labour;..to olive-yards and vineyards which he planted not.
1880 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxxvii. 523 He had come into the cool pastures and olive yards.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 87/1 Many olive-yards now exist in Upper Egypt.
1929 Cambr. Medieval Hist. VI. xiv. 475 Enclosed vineyards and oliveyards.
1935 W. D. Hooper & H. B. Ash tr. Varro in M. Harding Early Christian Life & Thought (2003) vii. x. 242/2 He shows how an oliveyard of 240 iugera should be equipped.
1985 ELH 52 809 He warns that the king will transform the Israelites into his servants, taking their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards for himself and his favorites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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