noun, an area on a farm property dedicated to milking cows
“He had a small milking yard a little bigger than this kitchen.”
“We used to go up and milk at the other place there. We used to have a milking yard up there. All summer long we used to milk the cows up in the milking yard.”
“My sister and I would walk across the fields with the Smith kids, and that’s just about where … the old upper place was, and we had to walk one mile, straight down to the river, and the cows were usually right down there at the river, and drive them up and have them in the milking yard by five o’clock.”