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byard
English
Etymology
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Noun
byard (plural byards)
- (historical) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
Anagrams
- Brady, Darby, bardy, brady, brady-, darby
byard From the web:
lyard
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lyart
Etymology
From Old French liart or Latin liardus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li?.ard/, /?li?.art/
Adjective
lyard
- (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
- Þat was wel twi?t, myn owene lyard boy. / I pray God save þee, and Seinte Loy!
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
Noun
lyard
- a horse which is dappled and spotted in the aforementioned way
- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
- Be the luef, be the loht, sue Edward, / Thou shalt ride sporeless o thy lyard,
- c. 1370-1390, William Langdon, The Vision of Piers Plowman, 1882, Thomas Wright (editor), The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2, page 352:
- Ac so soone so the Samaritan / Hadde sighte of this leode, / He lighte a-down of lyard,
- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
See also
- bayard
Anagrams
- Daryl
- lardy
Scots
Adjective
lyard
- Alternative spelling of lyart
- 1778, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (edited by Tobias George Smollett):
- In har'st at the shearing, nae swankies are jeering,
- Our bansters are wrinkled and lyard and grey:
- At a fair or a preaching, nae wooing nae fleetching, […]
- 1778, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (edited by Tobias George Smollett):
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