The Collaborative International Dictionary
Byard \By"ard\, n. A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
Wikipedia
Byard may refer to:
Surname
- Jaki Byard (1922–1999), American jazz pianist, composer, also played trumpet and saxophone
- Paul Byard (1939–2008), American lawyer and architect
- Thomas Byard (died 1800), officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars
- Philip Byard Clayton (known as "Tubby Clayton") (1885–1972), Anglican clergyman and the founder of Toc H
Given name
- Byard Lancaster (1942–2012), American jazz saxophonist and flutist
Other
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, Buckley class Captains class frigate during World War II
Usage examples of "byard".
He ducked the return cut, then lunged and pinked Byard in the right knee.
Then more music, with Byard Ray fiddling his possible best, the way we never thought to hear better.
When Byard Ray had done, the stranger took from a bag a shiny black fiddle.
Alone he fiddled, and, gentlemen, he purely fiddled better than Byard Ray.
His smile was no way likeable as he walked off, while folks swore no living soul could fiddle Byard Ray down without some special fiddle-secret.