rickyardn.
/ˈrɪkjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈrɪkˌjɑrd/ A farmyard or similar enclosure where ricks are stored.
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1586–7 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 208 All manner Corne in ye barne & in ye Fielde with ye hey in the Rickeyearde.
1685 G. Langbaine Hunter iii. 29 If you have the convenience of a Rick-yard, so that you keep your Hay abroad, it is the opinion of some knowing Horsemen, that to tuck it out of the Rick by little and little..makes it spend much better than it would otherwise do out of the Hay-Tallet.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 399 In a Rick-yard there I saw a Hemp-stalk Four Inches about.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland 57 His [wheat] is in the haggard (reek yard) when others are cutting.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 13 There is no necessity whatever for having a turnip-store in a rick-yard.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 415/2 Unless the farm is provided with a rick-yard of special merits,..the corn comes sooner into condition in the open field.
1922 S. J. Weyman Ovington's Bank xxxvi. 423 A countryman, whom the news had only just reached in his boosey-close or his rickyard.
1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) xi. 138 The advent of the combine harvester..may have contributed to the reduction in numbers of the chaffinches, once a common bird of the rickyards.
1994 Times 27 Dec. 4/5 The rickyard, swarming with rats and mice, disappeared from the farm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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