yarded (up)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

of moose or deer, grouped in a yard (def. la).

See: yard ((n.))(def. 1a),yard ((v.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1902

A herd of deer well yarded, under the leadership of an old and crafty buck, will come safe and sleek through the fiercest wilderness winter.

1921

It can be readily understood how easy it was for the Indians . . . to kill every animal found "yarded up."

2adj. — Lumbering

of logs, piled in a yard (def. 3).

See: yard ((n.))(def. 3),yard ((v.))(def. 2)

<i>a</i>1954

While loading teams with yarded logs I received my deathly wound.

1954

The picture formed in Alan's mind: a low slab-sided bunkhouse somewhere out back with logs yarded shoulder high and more being snaked in.