All 9 Uses of
yield
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The men who sat nearest considerately turned their faces towards the other end of the field, some of them beginning to smoke; one, with absent-minded fondness, regretfully stroking the jar that would no longer yield a stream.
Chpt 2 *yield = produce or give
- Songs were often resorted to in dairies hereabout as an enticement to the cows when they showed signs of withholding their usual yield; and the band of milkers at this request burst into melody—in purely business-like tones, it is true, and with no great spontaneity; the result, according to their own belief, being a decided improvement during the song's continuance.†
Chpt 3
- Knowing, however, the dairyman's wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, expecting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.†
Chpt 3
- Tess was taken completely by surprise, and she yielded to his embrace with unreflecting inevitableness.†
Chpt 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- He put it that way that she might not think he had yielded to an impulse of which his head would disapprove.
Chpt 4 *
- There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her.†
Chpt 6
- "To my thinking," said the dairyman, rising suddenly from a cow he had just finished off, snatching up his three-legged stool in one hand and the pail in the other, and moving on to the next hard-yielder in his vicinity, "to my thinking, the cows don't gie down their milk to-day as usual.†
Chpt 3
- Soon the sound of Old Pretty's milk fizzing into the pail came through the hedge, and then Angel felt inclined to go round the corner also, to finish off a hard-yielding milcher who had strayed there, he being now as capable of this as the dairyman himself.†
Chpt 3
- It cannot be that I shall yield one inch, yet I am in terror as to what an accident might lead to, and I so defenceless on account of my first error.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)