(n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(3) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
(4) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
(5) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
(6) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(7) Top finds include organic clothing at ColorHueso (no 7), antiques at Patio Almanzora (no 5) and vintage goods at Quasipercaso (no 1).
(8) Is that her, striding across the Marriot patio, or have I imagined the whole thing?
(9) A Freedom of Information request made to Defra reveals that although the UK is unable to ban patio heaters unilaterally they’re being considered for a shortlist of products that could be banned under the Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products Directive.
(10) Hansen reached the patio and, with others, pushed over a fence.
(11) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
(12) They all have terraces, with the ground-floor rooms opening on to an inner, plant-filled patio.
(13) When I return to the house, the white patio doors – bolted when I left – are still bolted.
(14) On the sun-drenched patio of the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen sat the chancellor of the exchequer.
(15) Sir John ushered George inside to continue their meeting, while out on the patio other Bilderberg briefings carried on apace.
(16) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
(17) The only person awake was her mother, Juana Ocampo, who saw six or seven people – some of them masked, some carrying guns – who approached the house shouting “where is she?” Within minutes the whole family – including Mota’s young nieces and nephew who were visiting for the holidays – were hauled out of their beds and forced to lie face down in the lounge and patio with guns to their heads, as the killers tried to identify their target.
(18) He points out that "building generators, aeroplanes, trains, commercial boilers, patio heaters, all of which also produce the same emissions our sector is working so hard to reduce" have an impact in urban areas such as London.
(19) Downtown Beds: dorm beds from £10, private doubles £28 B&B +52 55 5282 2199, downtownbeds.com El Patio 77 In recent years, the rough-around-the-edges San Rafael neighbourhood has experienced a modest renaissance as young people, and galleries, move into the area’s neglected 19th-century buildings.
(20) Men with skin the colour of patio crying in longships.
Yard
Definition:
(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
(v. i.) A branch; a twig.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
(v. i.) The penis.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
Example Sentences:
(1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(2) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(3) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(4) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(5) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(6) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
(8) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
(9) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(10) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(11) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
(12) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(13) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
(14) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(15) Scotland Yard announced its decision to investigate a few hours after John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, complained that Deen had not been arrested.
(16) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(17) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(18) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(19) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(20) 7.48pm BST 2 min: Blaszczykowski runs towards the Bayern box for the first time but Ribéry tracks him all the way and eventually dispossesses him some 20 yards out.