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swineyard

noun

Etymology

From swine + 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 swineyard — “swine + yard”

Definitions

  1. A yard for keeping pigs.

    • He refers to the old authorities holding that swineyards in cities are nuisances. But they show that swine become nuisances by being shut up, instead of running at large.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA