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Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

Metrical :: Metrical (a.) Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system..

Farmyard :: Farmyard (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings..

Boyard :: Boyard (n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like..

Woold :: Woold (v. t.) To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it..

Tilt-yard :: Tilt-yard (n.) A yard or place for tilting.

Verge :: Verge (n.) A virgate; a yardland.

Jackstay :: "Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened..

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard..

Forebrace :: Forebrace (n.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail..

Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..

Buntline :: Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in..

Vineyardist :: Vineyardist (n.) One who cultivates a vineyard.

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc..

Dungyard :: Dungyard (n.) A yard where dung is collected.

Top :: Top (v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc..

Vinedresser :: Vinedresser (n.) One who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard..

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