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单词 straw yard
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straw yardn.

1. A yard littered with straw, in which horses and cattle are wintered. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > other enclosures
post-and-rail paddock1684
straw yard1787
parkc1797
run1853
chicken run1868
creep1886
trap-yard1906
cutout1920
holding pen1923
holding paddock1933
holding yard1950
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 378 Cow-par, straw-yard; fold-yard.
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire II. 76 His practice is to buy in large Welch bullocks at Gloucester... He gives them the run of the straw yard the first winter.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 251 Winterers, or straw-yard cattle, intended for next summer's grass.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 371 Horses bought in the Winter, are, generally, subject to diseases in coming from straw-yards, or from the open fields, into Stables.
1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 185/2 Spacious straw-yards for artillery bullocks.
2. slang. (See quot. 1851.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > for homeless people
house of refuge1726
night sheltera1819
night refuge1840
tramp-house1850
straw yard1851
casual ward1861
casual1865
shelter1890
reception centre1896
tramp-cell1905
tramp-ward1906
Sally Ann1927
Sally1931
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 138/2 The night asylums or refuges for the destitute (usually called ‘straw-yards’ by the poor).
3. colloquial. A (man's) straw hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > straw > types of
Dunstable1805
Leghorn1810
skimmer1830
Tuscan hat1830
boating hat1840
mushroom1843
Milan hat1855
toering1855
bergère hat1873
Zulu hat1880
boater1882
boat hat1889
straw yard1900
donkey's breakfast1901
brimmer1902
straw boater1905
balibuntal1913
1900 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 9/2 The same hatter had sold two score ‘strawyards’ by noon to-day.

Derivatives

straw-yarder n. slang. See quot. 1853.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person > specific type of
straw-yarder1853
1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 7 342/2 A seaman..said that the captain..had manned his ship with a ‘lot of straw-yarders.’.. I was told that a ‘straw-yarder’ was a man about the docks who had never been to sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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