horse-yard

plural horse-yards

1. AustraliaA fenced enclosure or pen for horses.

   But it was some minutes before he proceeded beyond the horse-yard; indeed, he loitered there, though the jackeroo had the night-horse ready saddled […]

   1901, E. W. Hornung, chapter 4, in The Shadow of a Man, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 56

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   1914, Edward S. Sorenson, The Squatter King: A Romance of Bush Life, Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter 3, Outside the horse-yard, looking through the rails at half a dozen horses, and meditatively stroking his abundant beard, stood Captain Bryne, a well-conditioned man of 50, in a grey alpaca coat and white helmet.