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noun

Yard n.

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."

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Yard grass" Quotes from Famous Books

... all the bad people buried?" asks every man, with Charles Lamb, as he strolls among the rank grave-yard grass, and brushes it aside to read of the faithful husband, and the loving ...

— Prue and I • George William Curtis