单词 | straw yard |
释义 | straw yardn. 1. A yard littered with straw, in which horses and cattle are wintered. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1787 |
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