rickyard

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noun

A farmyard where hayricks are stored.

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Meanings

nounrickyard (plural rickyards)

plural rickyards

  1. A farmyard where hayricks are stored.

    ... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows.

    1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Bleak House

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
stackyard

Origin

From rick + yard.

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Cite this entry
APA

rickyard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickyard

MLA

“rickyard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickyard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rickyard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickyard.

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