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yard

UK/ˈjɑːd/ US/ˈjɑːd/ common informal slang us

noun

1.

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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2.

the enclosed land around a house or other building

  • “it was a small house with almost no yard”
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3.

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”
4.

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

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5.

an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

6.

a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

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7.

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

8.

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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Origin

From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).

Phrases

  • 18-yard line
  • 440-yard dash
  • a yard of pump water
  • all wool and a yard wide
  • balm yard
  • Burnt Yards
  • by the yard
  • clay yard
  • cloth yard
  • cross-jack yard
  • cubic yard
  • dead yard

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