tanyard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tanyard
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A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor—and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
I heard this mornin' that Henry Wimpelmeyer is to put in a cider-press at his tanyard, an' old man Smock's turnin' his grist mill into an apple-mill.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
The next day John Smith entered the tanyard, not this time slinking in as a thief in the darkness, but introduced by the master himself as an engaged workman.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
The two men picked their way down the sanded steps again, then passing under a high creeper-covered gateway they followed a narrow, flagged path to the tanyard.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
Michael's dwelling house and tanyard, Abel Brawn's blacksmith-shop, Christy M'Curdy's mill, and my school-house, made up the sum-total of the settlement.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
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