church-garth dial.
[see garth.]
A churchyard. (Intermediate between churchyard and northern English kirkgarth.)
1570 Levins Manip. 34 A church garth, cœmiterium. 1602 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 136 For mending the churchgarth yeats, 6d. 1851 N. & Q. Ser. i. III. 380/2 The term God's Acre as applied to a Church-garth. |