(with regard to the stress see FARM-HOUSE). The yard or inclosure attached to a farm-house or surrounded by farm-buildings. Also attrib.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, Wks. 1883, V. 258. In this very farmyard.
1788. W. Marshall, Yorksh. (1796), I. 361. Farmyard Management.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 354. He soon came out, and crossing the farm yard, attacked a bullock.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. 50. Guano … ‘a most powerful auxiliary to farm-yard manure.’
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Lit., Wks. (Bohn), II. 103. The English muse loves the farmyard.
