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Grep of noun yard backyard barnyard bayard brickyard charlestown navy yard chevalier de bayard chicken yard churchyard courtyard cubic yard dockyard dooryard farmyard front yard graveyard halyard henyard junkyard lanyard lumberyard main yard marshalling yard martha's vineyard naval shipyard navy yard new scotland yard railway yard rope yard savoyard schoolyard scotland yard seigneur de bayard shipyard side yard square yard steelyard stockyard tiltyard vineyard wasteyard yard yard-long bean yard goods yard grass yard marker yard measure yard sale yardage yardarm yardbird parker yarder yardgrass yardie yardline yardman yardmaster yardstick Overview of noun yard The noun yard has 8 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (765) yard, pace -- (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride) 2. (171) yard, grounds, curtilage -- (the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard") 3. (26) yard -- (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. (9) yard, railway yard -- (an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines) 5. (5) yard -- (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)) 6. (2) cubic yard, yard -- (a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)) 7. (1) yard -- (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen) 8. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard -- (the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100) Overview of noun yard The noun yard has 8 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (765) yard, pace -- (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride) 2. (171) yard, grounds, curtilage -- (the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard") 3. (26) yard -- (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. (9) yard, railway yard -- (an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines) 5. (5) yard -- (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)) 6. (2) cubic yard, yard -- (a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)) 7. (1) yard -- (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen) 8. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard -- (the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100)
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