yarded
USYARD-id/ˈjɑɹdɪd/UKYAHD-id/ˈjɑːdɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of yard.
The ranchers yarded the cattle ahead of the coming blizzard.
Crews yarded the felled timber down the slope to the riverbank.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty as past tense and past participle. What it can do depends on the verb behind it. The transitive sense, confining something to a yard, takes the passive freely: the cattle were yarded for the night. The humorous intransitive sense, moving a yard at a time rather than inching along, has only active forms: we had yarded along, never were yarded.
yarded is a form of yard
yard, verb: To confine an animal or thing within a yard. Full entry
- Spelling
- yard → yarded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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