"farm-yard" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: farm-yards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} farm-yard (plural farm-yards)
  1. Archaic form of farmyard. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: farmyard
    Sense id: en-farm-yard-en-noun-HhSmhDFZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 149–150:",
          "text": "The place deserves it, Bertram. You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman’s residence. That will be done, by the removal of the farm-yard, for independent of that terrible nuisance, I never saw a house of the kind which had in itself so much the air of a gentleman’s residence, so much the look of a something above a mere Parsonage House, above the expenditure of a few hundreds a year.",
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          "ref": "1836 January 1, “Romford Agricultural Association”, in The Essex Standard; and Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harwich Manningtree, Witham, Halsted, Braintree, Romford, Sudbury, Hedingham, Coggeshall, Bishop’s-Stortford, Dunmow, Saffron-Walden, Southend, and General County Advertiser, number 261, Colchester: John Taylor, Jun.; Chelmsford: Henry Thomas Biddell:",
          "text": "This somewhat paradoxical circumstance—and all the farmers expenses were shown to be strictly analogous, was fully accounted for by the taxes on the articles consumed by all workmen and labourers from the mines to the farm-yard; including, of necessity, the productors of the tools which their workmen employ.",
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          "ref": "1860, Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, volume XIX (1859), Albany, N.Y.: Charles Van Benthuysen, page 50:",
          "text": "[…] as if the howl of curs was more grateful than the bleating of flocks, and the design of improvident legislation by an inefficient tax, was to let these disturbers of the night and burglars of the farm-yard, pass yet a little longer unwhipt, or pardon me for saying, unhung of justice.",
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