rickyard

English

Etymology

From rick +‎ yard.

Noun

rickyard (plural rickyards)

1. A farmyard where hayricks are stored.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Bleak House:

     ... at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick-yards, milestones, farmers' waggons, scents of old hay, swinging signs, and horse troughs: trees, fields, and hedge-rows.

Hyponyms

• stackyard