yerd

plural yerds

1. obsoleteA yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.

   James Sympson, buryed in the yerd, xxvj may

   1899, The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society

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   "William Luff, fysherman, of the parishe of St Clementes in Hastyng . . . My body to be buryed in the church yerd of st Clementes” 17 Jun. 1545.

   1902, Sussex Record Society - Volume 42, page 282

   Robert Shertecliff for cheife rent of his tane yerd which he bought of my Lord pro dimidio anno xiid .

   1981, David Postles, Sheffield in 1581, page 20

2. obsoleteA yard (unit of measurement); three feet.

   It 1 towell diaper olde 2 yerds di. yerd brede

   1941, Louth (England). St. James's Church, Reginald Charles Dudding, The First Churchwardens' Book of Louth, 1500-1524, page 171

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   (15 aprill 1550 ) Such Napery as was in the church the same day one towell of holand of iij yerdes dimidium long & yerd brode one towell of calicow cloth / v yerdes a quarter long & dimidium yerd brode

   1910, Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, page 174

   Itm. the 12 day of June 1545 he sent me a reckenyng by my sarvant Henry Setterfford of 25 seme Wellsche bordes at 6d the seame & of a brode yerd 3 qrs. of muster clothe at 4s the yerd & of a yerd of white kersy at 20d & 2 yerdes ½ Bristowe frise at 12d the yerd & of a yerd & I qr. russett kersy at 14d the yerd & for 4 yerdes 3 qr. grey frize at 6d the yerd.

   1974, John Smythe, Bristol Record Society, John Angus, The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550, page 148

present singular third person yerds · participle present yerding · participle past yerded · past yerded

1. obsoleteTo bury or be buried.

   To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel.

   1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419

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   and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me.

   1877, John Cheap the Chapman's Library, page 7

   Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same.

   1923, George Forrest Browne, Echt-Forbes Family Charters 1345-1727, page 50

   Spalding recounts the incident: Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie and George Gordon his eldest son, with some servants,being at the hunts in Glenelg o at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th August cruelly murdered by certain highland limmars, likeas the laird and his son in their defence slew three of thir lowns, but craftily they presently yerded two of them in a hole, and the third they left lying above the ground,

   1960, Victor Gaffney, The Lordship of Strathavon: Tomintoul Under the Gordons, page 63

   At Baguley that burn his biding-place he had; His ancestors of old time have yerded there long, Before William Conqueror this country inhabited.

   1991, Emrys Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, page 73

1. Heard.

   Yo'n not' yerd no news, Ruth, I s'pose?

   1900, M. E. Francis, A Daughter of the Soil, page 328

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   But seein this postman made me think ov a tale ut aw yerd obeawt one e Howcom.

   1857, Oud John, A Yewud Chap's Trip to Manchister to see Prince Halbert, page 12

   Missis, says one, dunnot be so cuttin - yoar as keen as yoar mestur. Un, to be comfortable neaw; han yoa yerd th' news?

   1860, Bobby Shuttle, Bobby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Manchester, page 34

   I're a little bit gloppent i' th' mornin when I wakkent; an' yerd what I took to be a whul hive o' hummabees buzzin i' th' window.

   1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ben Brierley's Works: Ab-o'th', page 71