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timber-yard
An open yard or place where timber is stacked or stored.
In cricket slang applied to the place in which the wickets are pitched. Hence a row in his t., in reference to the wickets being struck with force by the ball.
1482–3Acc. Exch. K.R. Bundle 496 No. 25 (P.R.O.) Pro cariagio..de diversis locis..usque dictum castrum, le tymber⁓yard. 1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §10 Any Mansion-house with a Shop..Timber-yard, Teinter-yard, or Garden belonging to the same. 1768Earl Carlisle in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) II. 272 Why did you not set his timber-yard a-fire? 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. xi, The wicket⁓keeper..informed him ‘there was a row in his timber-yard’. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 638 After a desperate lunge he was startled with a ‘row in his timber yard’. |