fowlyard

English

Etymology

From fowl +‎ yard.

Noun

fowlyard (plural fowlyards)

  1. An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, First Slice:
      One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 128:
      [A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.

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