单词 | timber-yard |
释义 | timber-yardn. An open yard or place where timber is stacked or stored.In cricket slang applied to the place in which the wickets are pitched. Hence a row in his timber-yard, in reference to the wickets being struck with force by the ball. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber-yard timber-yard1482 wood-fold1570 lumber-yard1786 balk-yard1823 chantier1823 1482–3 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/496/25) Pro cariagio..de diversis locis..usque dictum castrum, le tymber~yard. 1545 Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 12 §10 Any Mansion-house with a Shop..Timber-yard, Teinter-yard, or Garden belonging to the same. 1768 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 272 Why did you not set his timber-yard a-fire? 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xi. 101 The wicket-keeper..informed him ‘there was a row in his timber-yard’. 1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 638 After a desperate lunge he was startled with a ‘row in his timber yard’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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