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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. Synonym: pace.

The enclosed land around a house or other building. Synonyms: curtilage, grounds.

A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings).

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100. Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand.

A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel). Synonym: cubic yard.

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. Synonyms: railway yard, railyard.

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

An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock).

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"Yard" Quotes from Famous Books

... 19th at noon came up with the 3 Dutch ships before mentioned. The 29th of November in the morning we saw a small hawk flying about the ship till she was quite tired. Then she rested on the mizzen-topsail-yard, where we caught her. It is probable she was blown off from Madagascar by the violent northerly winds; that being the nighest land to us, though distance near ...

— A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland • William Dampier

... and good pennyworths at the Golden Dog. Some of the lying cheats of the Friponne talked in my hearing one day about his being a Huguenot. But how can that be, Jean, when he gives the best weight and the longest measure of any merchant in Quebec? Religion is a just yard wand, that ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... in the center of the court-yard, where water spouted out from the mouths of carved images, and fell into marble basins below. The ruins of this fountain and of the images remain there still. The den at d was a round pit, like a well, which you could look down into from above: it was about ten feet deep. They ...

— Mary Queen of Scots, Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... shot, but he was inclined to believe that he had scored a hit somewhere, for he distinctly heard a loud shout that seemed to carry in it a note of alarm. Again, patiently waiting his chance, he fired; and this time he really fancied he saw some chips fly from the mast, close to the sling of the yard, at which point he was persistently aiming. Encouraged by this possible success, and still more by the fact that he was now distinctly overhauling the canoe, Leslie maintained a slow, careful, and ...

— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... arm around her, and drew her to his lap. As she sat there, his great bulk made her seem smaller than she really was. With her hair down and her little red slippers dangling half a yard from the floor, she seemed a child. McEachern, looking at her, found it hard to realize that nineteen years had passed since the moment when the doctor's raised eyebrows had reproved him for his monosyllabic reception of the news that the baby ...

— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

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