An open yard or place where timber is stacked or stored.
In cricket slang applied to the place in which the wickets are pitched. Hence a row in his t., in reference to the wickets being struck with force by the ball.
1482–3. Acc. Exch. K. R., Bundle 496 No. 25 (P.R.O.). Pro cariagio … de diversis locis … usque dictum castrum, le tymber-yard.
1545. Act 37 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 10. Any Mansion-house with a Shop … Timber-yard, Teinter-yard, or Garden belonging to the same.
1768. Earl Carlisle, in Jesse, Selwyn & Contemp. (1843), II. 272. Why did you not set his timber-yard a-fire?
1853. ‘C. Bede,’ Verdant Green, I. xi. The wicket-keeper … informed him ‘there was a row in his timber-yard.’
1869. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 638. After a desperate lunge he was startled with a ‘row in his timber yard.’
