outyard

plural outyards

1. agricultureA temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.

   Nowhere was this more evident than when we moved four of her beehives to the outyard.

   2020, Dave Doroghy, Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist, page 49

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   There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.

   1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69

present singular third person outyards · participle present outyarding · participle past outyarded · past outyarded

1. American footballTo gain more yards than.

   Although Oklahoma outyarded the Jays 339 to 155, Kansas fought magnificently and earned its 13-13 tie. Royal's punting had begun to jell. He kicked four out-of-bounds against the Crimson and Blue.

   1984, Harold Keith, Forty-Seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 28