| 单词 | pond yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspond yard pond yard n. now historical an area containing a fish pond or ponds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank > yard pond yard1339 1339–41 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 41 (MED) Pondyerd. 1485 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 235 Pro firma Piscarii vocat' le pondyarde per annum xvs. ?a1509 in L. T. Smith Common-place Bk. 15th Cent. (1886) 124 (MED) Item, Willm. Becket for the ponde yerd, ij d. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 110 All lands, tenements, gardens, medowes, waters, pondyards, [etc.]. 1796 Sporting Mag. 7 142 He..built Verulam House, close by the pond-yard. 2001 Express (Nexis) 8 Sept. 65 The series of small gardens occupying what was the Pond Yard—where Bluff King Hal kept fish to supply his royal kitchens. < as lemmas |
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