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Yard Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Yard?
[n] an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
[n] a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen [n] the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [n] an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines [n] 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" [n] a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [n] a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride [n] the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 Synonyms | Synonyms for Yard: 1000 | chiliad | cubic yard | curtilage | G | grand | grounds | K | M | one thousand | pace | railway yard | thou | thousand Related Terms | Find terms related to Yard: See Also | backyard | barnyard | capacity measure | capacity unit | chain | chicken run | chicken yard | churchyard | court | courtyard | cubage unit | cubature unit | cubic content unit | cubic measure | displacement unit | dooryard | enclosure | farmyard | fathom | field | foot | fowl run | front yard | ft | fthm | garden | God's acre | henyard | junkyard | large integer | lea | linear unit | main yard | marshalling yard | parcel | parcel | parcel of land | parcel of land | perch | piece of ground | piece of ground | piece of land | piece of land | playground | pole | rod | sailing ship | sailing vessel | schoolyard | side yard | spar | stockyard | tiltyard | tract | tract | volume unit | yardarm Yard In Webster's Dictionary \Yard\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for
pasture, protection, etc.
\Yard\, n. [OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, stick, a measure, a yard; akin to OFries. 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.) 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 of the three stars in the belt of Orion. {Under yard} [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.] --Chaucer. \Yard\, n. [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[eth]r yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house, garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure. Cf. {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. To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows. |
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