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/ˈjɑːd/
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[ˈjɑːd]
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/ˈjɑɹd/
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- General-American
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[ˈjɑɹd]
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- General-American
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/ˈjäɹd/
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- Ireland
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[ˈjäɹˠd]
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- Ireland
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/ˈjäɻd/
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- Ireland
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[ˈjäɻd]
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- Ireland
Noun
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
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'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- US usage
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An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
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Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
One’s house or home.
Usage- Jamaica
- Multicultural-London-English
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Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead Cuz I run up in yards, No vest, tryna ching man’s chest And leave him dead
Verb
To confine to a yard.
Usage- Transitive
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As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
The sheep were straggling in a manner that meant walking work to round them, and he supposed he would have to yard them tonight, if she didn't liven up.
Noun
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).
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Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
Any spar carried aloft.
Any spar carried aloft. 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 last two hang obliquely.
A branch, twig, or shoot.
Usage- Obsolete
A staff, rod, or stick.
Usage- Obsolete
A penis.
Usage- Obsolete
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Loues her by the foot. Dum. He may not by the yard.
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[…].
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[T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.
100 dollars.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
- Uncommon
The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
Usage- Obsolete
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You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
Usage- Obsolete
The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
Usage- Obsolete
A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
Verb
To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
Usage- Humorous
- Intransitive
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He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
Noun
10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
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I need to hedge a yard of yen.
One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
Usage- Slang
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How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.
Noun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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the enclosed land around a house or other building
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it was a small house with almost no yard
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
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they opened a repair yard on the edge of town
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
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a tract of land where logs are accumulated
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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