Meanings
plural wortyards · alternative wort-yard · alternative wort yard
- A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
For their wort-yards or orchards we must look not so much to the castle as to the monastery.
1929, Historian's Report, page 941 more example
After taking that class I was able to begin planting my wortyard, and to experiment with combining herbs for teas, drying them to preserve them, and making some tinctures, salves, and capsules.
2012, Jessica Prentice, Full Moon Feast, page 147Synonyms: kitchen garden, vegetable garden
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*wurtigard“vegetable garden”
- Old Englishwyrtġeard“vegetable garden”
- Middle Englishwortȝerd
- Englishwortyard
From Middle English wortȝerd, woorteȝerd, wyrteard, from Old English wyrtġeard (“vegetable garden”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtigard (“vegetable garden”), equivalent to wort + yard. Cognate with German Wurzgarten, Würzgarten, Swedish örtgård (“herb garden”).
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