Rickyard

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A farmyard where hayricks are stored.

    "... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows."

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"... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows."

Etymology

From rick + yard.

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