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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; âit was a small house with almost no yardâ
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); âthey opened a repair yard on the edge of townâ
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
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) Oneâs 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
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. gÄrd, 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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