rick-yard
[f. rick n.1]
A farm-yard or enclosure containing ricks; a stack-yard.
| 1712 Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. 399 In a Rick⁓yard there I saw a Hemp-stalk Four Inches about. 1780 A. Young Tour Irel. 57 His [wheat] is in the haggard (reek yard) when others are cutting. 1810 Sporting Mag. XXXV. 214 Simpson went into Mr. Evans's rick-yard. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 13 There is no necessity whatever for having a turnip-store in a rick-yard. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 415/2 Unless the farm is provided with a rick-yard of special merits,..the corn comes sooner into condition in the open field. |