kirkˈyard Now Sc.
Also 4 kyrk-yarde, 4–5 kirk(e)-ȝerd(e, 5 kyrkȝerd, kyrkeȝerde, kyrk-yharde, 7– Sc. kirkyaird.
[f. kirk n. + yard.]
Northern form of churchyard: now confined to Scotland: cf. kirk-garth.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 29349 In kyrk-yarde aght naman him deluen. [1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 9 No corps in her kirkeȝerde ne in her kyrke was buryed. 14.. Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 722/12 Hoc semitorium, a kyrkȝerd. c 1475 Pict. Voc. ibid. 803/5 Hoc atrium, a kyrkeȝerde.] a 1636 B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. iii, Our dame Hecate Made it her gaing-night, over the Kirk-yard. 1816 Scott Old Mort. Introd., The Cameronian monuments, in the old kirkyard of Kirkchrist. 1896 New-York Scot. American Oct., The auld kirkyaird on the grey hillside. |