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fowlyard

noun

Etymology

From fowl + yard.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to enclose”
  2. inherited from *gʰórdʰos✻
  3. inherited from *gardaz✻ — “enclosure, yard”
  4. inherited from *gard✻
  5. inherited from ġeard — “yard, garden, fence, enclosure”
  6. inherited from yerd
  7. compounded as fowlyard — “fowl + yard”

Definitions

  1. An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.

    • One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.
    • [A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.

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