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- noun Plural form of
hopyard .
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Examples
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And this I know by experience, that some one man by conversion of his moory grounds into hopyards, whereof before he had no commodity, doth raise yearly by so little as twelve acres in compass two hundred marks -- all charges borne towards the maintenance of his family.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Then they went on up the coast, steering for the hopyards northeast of San Francisco.
Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935
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Here in the hopyards the Beechams did not get their pay in money.
Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935
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And this I know by experience, that some one man by conversion of his moory grounds into hopyards, whereof before he had no commodity, doth raise yearly by so little as twelve acres in compass two hundred marksall charges borne towards the maintenance of his family.
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