wood-yardn.
/ˈwʊdjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌjɑrd/ A yard or enclosure in which wood is chopped, sawn, or stored, esp. for use as fuel. Also transferred (quot. 1774).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > place in which to store wood
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1309–10 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 7 In 1 securi empt. pro le Wodyard, 11d.
1537–8 Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 54 Item to the Squillary, vj s. Item to the Woodyerde, vij s. vj d.
1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12 §3 The sergeant of the Woodyarde.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 To those Dockes..belongs their wood-yards, with saw-pits.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 98 Over against his Majesties Wood-yard.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 166 Their wood-yards are larger or smaller, in proportion to the number in family: and..the usual stock of timber, for the accommodation of ten beavers, consists of about thirty feet in a square surface, and ten in depth.
1825 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. v. 62 There is no wood to be had from the College woodyard.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany 268 We begged permission of the buxom proprietress of a woodyard, to pitch our tent among her heaps of timber.
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