fore-yardn.1
/ˈfɔːjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌjɑrd/ The yard or court in front of a building.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > fore-court
vestiary1382
fore-yard1420
forecourt1535
vestibule1623
foregartha1642
antecourt1659
vestibulum1662
frontstead1688
frontcourt1749
paepae1919
1420–30 Lay-Folks' Prayer Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 46 In the forȝerdis of the hous of oure God.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. x. 4 The halle [v.r. forȝerde; L. atrium].
1699 S. Sewall Diary 21 June (1973) I. 411 A Pack of Cards are found strawed over my fore-yard.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 288 She would not come in, but sat fretting on a Seat in the Fore-yard.
1860 J. White Hist. France (ed. 2) 90 Where gentle lawns sloping downward from the door must be converted into a foreyard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fore-yardn.2
/ˈfɔːjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌjɑrd/ 1. Nautical. ‘The lowest yard on the fore-mast’ (W. C. Russell).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > yards on foremast
fore-topgallant-sail-yard1626
fore-yard1627
driver yard1757
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. iii. 16 The fore Yard [must be] 19. yards long, and 15. inches diameter or thick.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 145 Her Fore-top-mast broke short, and in its Fall, meeting with the Fore-yard broke it in the Slings.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ix. 174 At sea, when the bell is struck at noon, the sun is said to be ‘over the fore-yard’.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 6 After toiling on the foreyard in a violent night-squall.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > antenna
fore-yard1658
sailyard1658
pointers1664
antenna1668
palpus1803
palp1835
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 937 The fore-yards are thin, black and short.
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