horse-yard
English
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Noun
horse-yard (plural horse-yards)
- (chiefly Australia) A fenced enclosure or pen for horses.
- 1901, E. W. Hornung, The Shadow of a Man, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 4, p. 56,
- But it was some minutes before he proceeded beyond the horse-yard; indeed, he loitered there, though the jackeroo had the night-horse ready saddled […]
- 1914, Edward S. Sorenson, The Squatter King: A Romance of Bush Life, Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter 3,
- Outside the horse-yard, looking through the rails at half a dozen horses, and meditatively stroking his abundant beard, stood Captain Bryne, a well-conditioned man of 50, in a grey alpaca coat and white helmet.
- 1901, E. W. Hornung, The Shadow of a Man, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 4, p. 56,
Anagrams
- yardhorse