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▸ noun: (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
▸ noun: An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
▸ noun: A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
▸ noun: (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
▸ verb: (transitive) To confine to a yard.
▸ noun: Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
▸ noun: (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
▸ noun: (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
▸ noun: (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
▸ noun: (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
▸ verb: (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
▸ noun: (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
▸ noun: Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
▸ noun: (figurative, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service
▸ noun: (Jamaica) Jamaica
▸ noun: A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of square yard.. a unit of area (common with textiles)
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard.. a unit of volume (common in mining and earthmoving)
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front yard,
back yard,
side yard,
alley,
garden,
courtyard,
parking lot,
driveway,
sidewalk,
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