| 单词 | waste-yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaste-yard waste-yard n. ? Obsolete ? a yard for the reception of odds and ends of little value. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > an enclosed piece of ground > for working, storing, or growing in > for storing things of little value waste-yarda1630 a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 460 Theire houses, (which haue no such wastyardes about them as euery Farmers house hath with vs). 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 162 And, rick-yard, farm-yard, waste-yard, horse-paddock, and all round about, seemed to be swarming with fowls, ducks, and turkeys. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. xi. 82 In the waste-yard outside [the mill], the steam from the escape-pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain. < as lemmas |
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