ˈwood-yard
Forms and etym.: see wood n.1 and yard n.1
A yard or inclosure in which wood is chopped, sawn, or stored, esp. for use as fuel. Also transf. (quot. 1774).
| 1309–10 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 7 In j securi empt. pro le Wodyard, xj d. 1537–8 Privy Purse Exp. P'cess Mary (1831) 54 Item to the Squillary, vj s. Item to the Woodyerde, vij s. vj d. 1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §3 The sergeant of the Woodyarde. 1627 Capt. J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 To those Docks..belongs their wood-yards, with saw-pits. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 12 Sept. 1676, Over against his Majesties wood yard. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 166 Their wood-yards are larger or smaller, in proportion to the number in family; and..the usual stock of timber, for the accommodation of ten beavers, consists of about thirty feet in a square surface, and ten in depth. 1825 Longfellow in Life (1891) I. v. 62 There is no wood to be had from the College woodyard. 1859 Jephson & Reeve Brittany 268 We begged permission of the buxom proprietress of a woodyard, to pitch our tent among her heaps of timber. |