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单词 timber-yard
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timber-yardn.

Brit. /ˈtɪmbəjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈtɪmbərˌjɑd/
Forms: see timber n.1 and yard n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: timber n.1, yard n.1
Etymology: < timber n.1 + yard n.1
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.
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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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