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greenyard en · NOUN

Etymology

From green + yard.

Meanings

1. (UK) An enclosure covered with turf or grass. ▸ A pound used for the reception of stray animals.
   • Enclosed by a high wall, the site included a greenyard for holding stray cattle, later used as a stoneyard, and there was also a stone-faced brick watch-box. 2008, “Rosebery Avenue”, in Philip Temple, editor, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville (Survey of London; 47), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 125:
2. An enclosure covered with turf or grass. ▸ A yard designed for training hounds.
   • To save a good deal of this pulling and hauling about, the couples may first be put on them in the green-yard, for an hour or two in the morning and afternoon; but they must never be left for a moment out of the feeder’s or huntsman’s sight, […] 1868, Scrutator [William Knightley Horlock], The Science of Foxhunting and Management of the Kennel, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 48:

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