byard
See also: Byard
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
byard (plural byards)
- (historical) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “byard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)