outyard

English

Etymology 1

From out- +‎ yard (“enclosed area designated for a specific purpose”).

Noun

outyard (plural outyards)

1. (beekeeping) A temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.
   • 1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69:

     There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.

   • 2020, Dave Doroghy, Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist, page 49:

     Nowhere was this more evident than when we moved four of her beehives to the outyard.

Related terms

• beeyard

 

Etymology 2

From out- +‎ yard (“unit of length equal to 3 feet”).

Verb

outyard (third-person singular simple present outyards, present participle outyarding, simple past and past participle outyarded)

1. (American football) To gain more yards than.
   • 1984, Harold Keith, Forty-Seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 28:

     Although Oklahoma outyarded the Jays 339 to 155, Kansas fought magnificently and earned its 13-13 tie. Royal's punting had begun to jell. He kicked four out-of-bounds against the Crimson and Blue.