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Definition of 'yard'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yard, .
Noun
( en-noun)
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building ().
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An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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(Jamaica) One’s house or home.
Derived terms
See also Yard
* apple-yard
* back yard, back-yard, backyard
* barn-yard, barnyard
* bone-yard, boneyard
* brickyard
* castle yard
* chapel yard
* churchyard
* court-yard, courtyard
* deer-yard, deeryard
* dockyard
* door-yard, dooryard
* dung-yard
* farm-yard, farmyard
* fore-yard
* front yard
* graveyard
* green-yard, greenyard
* grip-yard
( rel-mid4)
* hemp-yard
* hop-yard
* inn-yard, innyard
* junk-yard, junkyard
* kailyard, kaleyard
* kirkyard
* knacker's yard
* liberty of the yard
* lumber-yard, lumberyard
* marshaling yard, marshalling yard
* mast-yard
* navy yard, navy-yard
* olive-yard
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* palace yard
* par-yard
* poultry-yard
* press-yard
* rick-yard, rickyard
( rel-mid4)
* rope-yard
* sale-yard, saleyard
* schoolyard
* scrapyard
* shipyard
* show-yard
* stable-yard
* stack-yard, stackyard
* steelyard
* stockyard
* straw yard
* switchyard
* tan-yard, tanyard
* tenter-yard
* tilt-yard, tiltyard
* timber-yard, timberyard
* vinegar-yard
* vineyard
* wood-yard, woodyard
( rel-mid4)
* yardage
* yard bird, yardbird
* yard-boy
* yard broom
* yard-dike
* yard-dog
* yardful
* yard grass, yard-grass
* yardhove
* yarding
* yardland
* yardman
* yardmaster
* yard-money
* yardperson
* yard sale
* yardsman
* yardswoman
* yard work, yard-work
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
To confine to a yard.
* 1893 , Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) yerd, , German Gerte.
Noun
( en-noun)
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is 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.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft ().
A staff, rod or stick.
- (Piers Plowman)
A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; ).
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(US|slang) One hundred dollars.
(obsolete) The penis.
*, II.12:
*:there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard , and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
Derived terms
* all wool and a yard wide
* by the yard
* clay yard
* cloth yard, cloth-yard
* cubic yard
* fore-yard, foreyard
* golden yard
* jackyard
* main yard, main-yard
* mast-yard
* meteyard
( rel-mid4)
* mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard
* royal yardman
* sailyard
* six-yard box
* square yard
* steelyard
* under the yard
* upper yardman
* yardage
* yard-arm, yardarm
( rel-mid4)
* yard-coal
* yarded
* yardel
* yard-fell
* yard goods
* yardland
* yard-long
* yard-measure
* yard of ale
* yard of clay
( rel-mid4)
* yard of land
* yard of lime
* yard of mortar
* yard of satin
* yard of stone
* yard of tin
* yard-rope
* yard-seam
* yard-stick, yardstick
* yard-wand, yardwand
* whole nine yards
( rel-bottom)
Etymology 3
Corruption of (etyl) milliard.
Noun
( en-noun)
(finance) 109, A thousand millions or milliard.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
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