rickyard

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rick +‎ yard

Noun[edit]

rickyard (plural rickyards)

  1. A farmyard where hayricks are stored.
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Bleak House:
      ... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows.

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