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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A space or area in the woods occupied by a herd of moose in winter, shut in on all sides by deep snow.

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Examples

  • There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.

    Walden 2004

  • There, far from the village street, and, except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • He had ventured farther away than the others, and had found a moose-yard.

    Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • The men went on snowshoes, leaving the teams hitched in a thicket on the edge of a logging road some three or four hundred yards from the "moose-yard."

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Now and then they saw moose-tracks, but they were some days out before they came to a moose-yard -- a spot hoof-beaten by the moose; his home, from which he strays, and to which he returns at times like a repentant prodigal.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • This made me itch like sin, just to get my fingers on a trigger, with a full moose-yard in view.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Now and then they saw moose-tracks, but they were some days out before they came to a moose-yard -- a spot hoof-beaten by the moose; his home, from which he strays, and to which he returns at times like a repentant prodigal.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • They chanced upon a moose-yard, and while the Indians were beating the woods, Malbrouck and Gregory watched.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • This made me itch like sin, just to get my fingers on a trigger, with a full moose-yard in view.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • They chanced upon a moose-yard, and while the Indians were beating the woods, Malbrouck and Gregory watched.

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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