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YARD, YAIRD, _s._ A garden; properly of pot-herbs; also called a _kail-yard_, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _geard_, Su. G. _gaerd_, Belg. _gaarde_, sepes, area clausa.

YARE, YHAR, YORE, _adj._ Ready, alert, in a state of preparation, S. B.

O. E.

_Barbour._

It is evidently the same with ~Gare~, q. v.

YARE, _s._ A wear, for catching fish.

V. ~Yair~.

_To_ YARK, _v. a._ To beat.

V. ~Yerk~.

YARNE, YERNE, _adv._ Eagerly, diligently.

_Barbour._

A. S. _georne_, _georn_, studious, careful, _earnest_; Su. G.

_gerna_, libenter.

YARNETS, _s. pl._ An instrument for winding yarn, S.

YARPHA, _s._

1. Peat full of fibres and roots, Orkn.

2. Peat combined with clay or sand; a denomination of soil, Orkn.

_Barry._

Isl. _joerfi_, lutum; Norw. _joerme_, black marshy earth, by the common change of _f_ into _m_.

V. Haldorson.

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