Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yard for folding or feeding cattle or sheep.
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Examples
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Well, you go through the fold-yard, across a field, and down a lane, then there's a straight path over the moor, right to Pendlemere.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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So they turned across the park, and up the hill to the white farm, and through the fold-yard, and over the field, and along the lane on to the open moor.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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A YOUNG PIG was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
Fables Aesop 1880
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Just then we heard the fold-yard gate swing to behind some one who was coming to the house.
The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871
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As we entered the fold-yard, Tardif pointed this room out to me as mine.
The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871
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When we reached the fold-yard gate, I stopped her for a moment to speak only a few words.
The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871
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Right glad were they who had stayed to see me, glad as are the calves who have been penned in the fold-yard when their mothers come back in the evening.
The Story of the Odyssey Alfred John Church 1870
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On coming to the entrance of the fold-yard, they stop and hesitate, refusing to enter.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Under all circumstances it is important that the whole training of a colt (and training of the boy who is to manage horses) should be conducted from first to last on consistent principles; for, in the mere process of driving a colt from the field to the fold-yard, ideas of terror may be instilled into the timid animal, for instance, by idle drumming on a hat, which it will take weeks or months to eradicate.
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(lee fold-yard); the tenant being charged for hewing pofts and fawing battons, in the fame proportion he is for gates or gate-iluff j namely, the full expence of workmanfhip.
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