pan-yard

A form of panyard — An enclosed area in which a steel band practises.

Meanings

nounpan-yard (plural pan-yards)

plural pan-yards

  1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of panyard (“pannier; bag or basket”).
    1 more example

    Called up at three o'clock, and was a-horseback by four; and as I was eating my breakfast I saw a man riding by that rode a little way upon the road with me last night; and he being going with venison in his pan-yards to London, I called him in and did give him his breakfast with me, and so we went together all the way.

    1661 August 7, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 90–91
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