greenyard

plural greenyards · alternative green-yard · alternative green yard

1. An enclosure covered with turf or grass.
   1. UKA pound used for the reception of stray animals.

      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.

      2008, “Rosebery Avenue”, in Philip Temple, editor, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville (Survey of London; 47), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 125

   2. A yard designed for training hounds.

      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, […]

      1868, Scrutator [William Knightley Horlock], The Science of Foxhunting and Management of the Kennel, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 48