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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yard \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yard \Yard\, v. t. To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up or keep in a yard; as to yard cows. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yard \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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yard \Yard\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: yard n 1: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride [syn: {pace}] 2: the land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard at all" [syn: {grounds}] 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: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: {thousand}, {one thousand}, {1000}, {M}, {K}, {chiliad}, {G}, {grand}, {thou}] 5: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: {cubic yard}] 6: an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines [syn: {railway yard}] 7: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen 8: an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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