单词 | yard-room |
释义 | > as lemmasyard-room C1. attributive and in other combinations. (a) in sense 1, as yard-broom, yard door, yard gate, yard wall; (b) in sense 2, as yard-bar, yard-dung, yard-liquor, yard-pond, yard-room; †(c) in sense 3 (Scottish and U.S.), as yard door, yard end, yard house, yard tack; (d) in sense 4a, 4b, esp. relating to dockyards, ship-yards, cab yards, or railway yards, as yard clerk, yard craft, yard-keeper, yard-lighter, yard-master. ΚΠ (a) (b)1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 49v Some barnroome haue litle, & yardroome as much.1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. xi. 81 He may now carry out his Stable or Yard-Dung.1764 Museum Rusticum 2 i. 3 When I make use of yard dung, I take care it is very rotten.1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 23 It is better management to prevent, than either to waste or cart-out a superfluity of Yard-liquor.1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 20 While ducks and geese..Plunge in the yard-pond brimming o'er.1869 A. D. Whitney Hitherto xi The lowing of cattle at their yard-bars.(c)1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 189 He sal put bath husband tak and ȝard tak til al possibil polyci.1505 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 260 Biggind of gud ȝerd hous, sufficiand chawmeris and stabulis to resaue and herbry..xij or xvj hors.1532 Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 57 The rademyng and lowsing of twa riggis of land, lyand at his yard end.1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 79 Behind the yard-door of my own house,..there was a low fence.(d)a1647 P. Pett Life in Archaeologia (1796) 12 266 Those businesses, which were put out by the great to divers yard-keepers.1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. 87 Yard-keeper and Fire-maker.1804 Naval Chron. 12 504 Six Gun-vessels and Yard-lighters.1861 in Orders Council Naval Service (1904) II. 29 Pensions..granted to the Riggers employed in Your Majesty's Dock~yards, and the Seamen belonging to the Yard Craft.1864 Rep. Children's Employment Comm. 139/1 in Parl. Papers XXII. 487/1 Mr Thomas Wheat, yard~master... My duty is to give orders..and manage the work.1883 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Yard Clerk, one who has the overlooking of the yard of a brewery, builder, etc.1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 9 Apr. 3/4 [A] yardmaster at Brattleboro' had one leg cut off by a switching train.1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 93 The brakesman was standing by to couple the cars that the yard engine was backing down on to the rest of the train.1898 Engin. Mag. 16 67 The ordinary yard-handling of, say, an army corps.1580 in Archaeologia 64 358 To mak and hang a yard dor at the nether end of the turrit at the bridg. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iii. 69 Lofty garden and yard walls of grey stone. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 358 Let me and my serving-man go free out of thy yard gate. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 29 Near the yard doors. 1921 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 195/1 Dip an old yard~broom in a bucket of water. 1982 J. Scott Local Lads iii. 32 Billy took up an aged, patchily moulted yardbroom. < as lemmas |
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