noun. A fundamental unit of length in both the US Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter).

noun. A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.

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noun. A square yard.

noun. A cubic yard.

noun. A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.

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noun. A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.

noun. A baseball park.

noun. An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.

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noun. A winter pasture for deer or other grazing animals.

noun. An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.

intransitive verb. To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.

intransitive verb. To gather together into a yard.

noun. A rod; a stick; a wand; a branch or twig.

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noun. Rule; direction; correction.

noun. A measuring-rod or -stick of the exact length of 3 feet or 36 imperial inches; a yardstick.

noun. The fundamental unit of English long measure.

noun. Nautical, a long cylindrical spar having a rounded taper toward each end, slung crosswise to a mast and used for suspending certain of the sails called either square or lateen sails according as the yard is suspended at right angles or obliquely.

noun. A long piece of timber, as a rafter.

noun. In heraldry, a bearing representing a staff or wand divided into equal parts, as if for a measure.

noun. The virile member; the penis.

noun. Hence— A pint of ale, beer, or wine served in a yard-glass, and usually drunk for amusement or on a wager, on account of the likelihood of spilling or choking. Compare ale-yard.

To put into or inclose in a yard; shut up in a yard, as cattle: as, to yard cows.

To resort to winter pastures: said of moose and deer.

To shoot deer in their winter yards.

To summon for hiring: a process formerly used in the Isle of Man, and executed by the coroner of the sheading or district on behalf of the deemsters and others entitled to a priority of choice of the servants at a fair or market.

noun. A piece of inclosed ground of small or moderate size; particularly, a piece of ground inclosing or adjoining a house or other building, or inclosed by it: as, a front yard; a court-yard; a dooryard; a churchyard; an inn-yard; a barn-yard; a vineyard.

noun. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on: as, a brick-yard; a wood-yard; a tan-yard; a dock-yard; a stock-yard; a navy-yard.

noun. In railway usage, the space or tract adjacent to a railway station or terminus, which is used for the switching or making up of trains, the accommodation of rolling-stock, and similar purposes.

noun. A garden; now, chiefly, a kitchen- or cottage-garden: as, a kale-yard.

noun. The winter pasture or browsing-ground of moose and deer; a moose-yard.

noun. A measure of land in England, varying locally: in Buckinghamshire, formerly, 28 to 40 acres; in Wiltshire, a quarter of an acre. Compare yard-land.

noun. A rod; a stick; a staff.

noun. A branch; a twig.

noun. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

noun. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

noun. The penis.

noun. 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.

noun. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

noun. a popular name of the three stars in the belt of Orion.

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noun. under contract.

noun. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn

noun. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on

noun. 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.

noun. an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it.

noun. 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.

"If you intended to sell or measure produce or goods of any kind, it would be essential to know how many pints or quarts are contained in a gallon, or in a bushel, or how many inches there are in a yard, and you also ought to know just what the quantity term _bushel_ or the measurement _yard_ means."

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