Inn-yard

Quick meaning: Inn-yard is a noun meaning Archaic form of innyard.

Meaning

Archaic form of innyard.

Example Sentences

This time, he is thrust aside by the vigorous young arm of Guglielmo, a young gentleman who has just stepped into the inn-yard, closely followed by a servant carrying his portemanteau.

And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]

I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.

After ordering refreſhments, he went out to ſpeak with the landlord, but had ſcarcely left the room, when Adeline obſerved a party of horſemen enter the inn-yard, and ſhe had no doubt theſe were the perſons from whom they fled.

Word Forms

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