unyard
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]unyard (third-person singular simple present unyards, present participle unyarding, simple past and past participle unyarded)
- To move (stock) out of a yard.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 272:
- She had gone that morning to unyard the ewes and lambs, and coming back had paid her good-bye visit to the little enclosure, and found that the graves had been opened by careless hands that had left convincing proof.