Moose Yard

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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

He had ventured farther away than the others, and had found a moose-yard. ❋ 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." ❋ 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. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

This made me itch like sin, just to get my fingers on a trigger, with a full moose-yard in view. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

They chanced upon a moose-yard, and while the Indians were beating the woods, Malbrouck and Gregory watched. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Even at this elevation we passed through a moose-yard, formed by a large flat rock, four or five rods square, where they tread down the snow in winter. ❋ Unknown (1858)

A place of this sort is termed by the hunters a "moose-yard;" and in such a situation the animals become an easy prey. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

[I live] in [the Moose] [Yards]. ❋ Jarppilarpagus (2018)