Now Sc. Also 4 kyrk-yarde, 4–5 kirk(e)-ȝerd(e, 5 kyrkȝerd, kyrkeȝerde, kyrk-yharde, 7– Sc. kirkyaird. [f. KIRK sb. + YARD.] Northern form of CHURCHYARD: now confined to Scotland: cf. KIRK-GARTH.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 29349. In kyrk-yarde aght naman him deluen.

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[1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B XIII. 9. No corps in her kirkeȝerde ne in her kyrke was buryed.

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14[?].  Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 722/12. Hoc semitorium, a kyrkȝerd.

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c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., ibid. 803/5. Hoc atrium, a kyrkeȝerde.]

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a. 1636.  B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., II. iii. Our dame Hecate Made it her gaing-night, over the Kirk-yard.

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1816.  Scott, Old Mort., Introd. The Cameronian monuments, in the old kirkyard of Kirkchrist.

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1896.  New-York Scot. American, Oct. The auld kirkyaird on the grey hillside.

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