YARD

yard

(noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

yard

(noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

yard, grounds, curtilage

(noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building; “it was a small house with almost no yard”

yard, railway yard, railyard

(noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

yard

(noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); “they opened a repair yard on the edge of town”

yard

(noun) a tract of land where logs are accumulated

yard, pace

(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

thousand, one thousand, chiliad, grand, thou, yard

(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

the Yard

Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard

(Jamaica) Jamaica

(figurative, metonym) The Metropolitan Police Service

Anagrams

• Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray

Etymology 1

Noun

yard (plural yards)

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

(US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

Synonym: garden

An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

(Jamaica) One’s house or home.

Verb

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

Etymology 2

Noun

yard (plural yards)

A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

(obsolete, medical) A penis.

(US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16-1/2 feet.

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1/4 acre.

Synonyms

• (arm length): See ell

• ($100): See hundred

• (surveying measure): See rod

• (large unit of area): See virgate

• (small unit of area): See rood

Hypernyms

• (unit of area): See virgate

Hyponyms

• (unit of area): See virgate

Etymology 3

Noun

yard (plural yards)

(finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

Anagrams

• Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray

Source: Wiktionary

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Yard, n. Etym: [OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, ierde, OS. gerda, D. garde, G. gerte, OHG. gartia, gerta, gart, Icel. gaddr a goad, sting, Goth. gazds, and probably to L. hasta a spear. Cf. Gad, n., Gird, n., Gride, v. i., Hastate.]

1. A rod; a stick; a staff. [Obs.] P. Plowman. If men smote it with a yerde. Chaucer.

2. A branch; a twig. [Obs.] The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. Chaucer.

3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. [Obs.]

4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

5. The penis.

6. (Naut.)

Definition: A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship. Golden Yard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular name the three stars in the belt of Orion.

– Under yard [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Yard, n. Etym: [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries. garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden, G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar yard, house, Sw. gård, Dan. g, Goth. gards a house, garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. Court, Garden, Garth, Horticulture, Orchard.]

1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard. A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer. Chaucer.

2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard. Liberty of the yard, a liberty, granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not to go beyond those limits.

– Prison yard, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it.

– Yard grass (Bot.), a low-growing grass (Eleusine Indica) having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and like places, especially in the Southern United States. Called also crab grass.

– Yard of land. See Yardland.

Yard, v. t.

Definition: To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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