greenyard

English

Alternative forms

• green-yard, green yard

Etymology

From green +‎ yard.

Noun

greenyard (plural greenyards)

1. An enclosure covered with turf or grass.
   1. (UK) A pound used for the reception of stray animals.
      • 2008, “Rosebery Avenue”, in Philip Temple, editor, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville (Survey of London; 47), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

        Enclosed by a high wall, the site included a greenyard for holding stray cattle, later used as a stoneyard, and there was also a stone-faced brick watch-box.

   2. A yard designed for training hounds.
      • 1868, Scrutator [William Knightley Horlock], The Science of Foxhunting and Management of the Kennel, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 48:

        To save a good deal of this pulling and hauling about, the couples may first be put on them in the green-yard, for an hour or two in the morning and afternoon; but they must never be left for a moment out of the feeder’s or huntsman’s sight, […]

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “green-yard, greenyard”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• “greenyard”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.