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What does yard mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word yard? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
  2. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
  3. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
  4. (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
Noun
  1. 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).
  2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
  3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
    1. (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.
  4. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
  5. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
  6. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
  7. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
  8. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.
  9. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.
Noun
  1. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
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