Middle English Dictionary Entry
hagard n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hagard n. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI hey-garðr. Also cp. ML hagardus, from ON. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A yard for storing grain, stackyard, haggard; hagardes man, an owner of a stackyard.
Associated quotations
- [ (1309-10) Doc.Ireland in RS 53508 : Frumentum et avenas inventa in quodam hagardo. ]
- (1452) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1275 : That no hagards man dwellyng whitin the cite shulde no sell no maner of corne outewardes to no straungeris.
- (1455) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1287 : That no maner of man ne woman that hath hagardys of hare owyn within the cytte..by no corn withyn the market of the sayde citte.
- (1471-2) Statutes Ireland 3p.750 : De ensercher & examinere lez hagardes & de ordeiner lez ditz greinez & vitailx de estre portez al comune marchee.