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What is the noun for yardage?

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yard
  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.
  10. Synonyms:
      11. garden, lawn, backyard, patch, clearing, barnyard, terrace, grass, back yard, flower garden, green, patio, courtyard, play area, plot, park, grounds, orchard, allotment, nursery, oasis, parkland, garth, estate, greenery, gardens, common, enclosure, hothouse, conservatory, greenhouse, shrubbery, rockery, field, rock garden, forest park, vegetable garden, vegetable plot, botanical garden, cultivated plants, rose garden, cold frame, public park, piece of land, kitchen garden, greensward, lawns … more
  11. Examples:
      12. “I spent the afternoon planting flowers in the yard and enjoying the sunshine.”
      “When we were big enough to go outside by ourselves, we had the run of a big, beautiful yard with trees and even a pond to splash around and get filthy in.”
      “There was a tiny button on the hat as well as a feather to flourish it, offsetting a sun blaring through a lattice of leaves in a cloistered yard off Cloth Fair.”
yard
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. garden, lawn, backyard, patch, clearing, barnyard, terrace, grass, back yard, flower garden, green, patio, courtyard, play area, plot, park, grounds, orchard, allotment, nursery, oasis, parkland, garth, estate, greenery, gardens, common, enclosure, hothouse, conservatory, greenhouse, shrubbery, rockery, field, rock garden, forest park, vegetable garden, vegetable plot, botanical garden, cultivated plants, rose garden, cold frame, public park, piece of land, kitchen garden, greensward, lawns … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “I spent the afternoon planting flowers in the yard and enjoying the sunshine.”
      “When we were big enough to go outside by ourselves, we had the run of a big, beautiful yard with trees and even a pond to splash around and get filthy in.”
      “There was a tiny button on the hat as well as a feather to flourish it, offsetting a sun blaring through a lattice of leaves in a cloistered yard off Cloth Fair.”
yarder
  1. (forestry) A motor-driven logging machine which transports logs by means of a system of cables and winches.
  2. (in combination) Something that is a stated number of yards in some dimension - such as a ten-yarder.
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sanders does not use intermediate supports as his yarder works on an endless running line that is fed around two capstan wheels.”
      “With the addition of one, two or three winches, any excavator will perform double duty as a small yarder.”
      “Three minutes were on the clock when Rosana ended a jinking run with a fine curling 25 yarder that cleared the bar by inches.”
yardage
  1. An amount or length measured in yards.
  2. The use of a yard, or the fee charged for it.
  3. Examples:
      4. “He can scramble to avoid pressure and pick up yardage on the run, but he doesn't have a pro arm and is accurate in streaks.”
      “One of the most disappointing things was that we tried to bludgeon our way up field to make yardage instead of spreading the ball wide.”
      “Most photographs of ectoplasm make it look like the kind of stuff you could pick up at the local yardage store or buy from Amazon.”
yardsnap
  1. (nautical) A strap equipped with snaps at the outer end of a yard for securing signal halyards.
yardarm
  1. (nautical) The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
  2. Examples:
      3. “These attractions provide a suitable skyline for the short-stay traveller to decide when the watery sun is safely over the yardarm.”
      “Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.”
      “Far more frightening to him than dangling from an ice-glazed yardarm 150 feet over the Southern Ocean was being unable to choose his own destiny.”
yard
  1. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. garden, lawn, backyard, patch, clearing, barnyard, terrace, grass, back yard, flower garden, green, patio, courtyard, play area, plot, park, grounds, orchard, allotment, nursery, oasis, parkland, garth, estate, greenery, gardens, common, enclosure, hothouse, conservatory, greenhouse, shrubbery, rockery, field, rock garden, forest park, vegetable garden, vegetable plot, botanical garden, cultivated plants, rose garden, cold frame, public park, piece of land, kitchen garden, greensward, lawns … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I spent the afternoon planting flowers in the yard and enjoying the sunshine.”
      “When we were big enough to go outside by ourselves, we had the run of a big, beautiful yard with trees and even a pond to splash around and get filthy in.”
      “There was a tiny button on the hat as well as a feather to flourish it, offsetting a sun blaring through a lattice of leaves in a cloistered yard off Cloth Fair.”
yardful
  1. Enough to fill a yard.
  2. Examples:
      3. “There are new boxes planned, improvements to be made, another yardful of talent to accumulate.”
      “Ten cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana.”
yards
  1. plural of yard
  2. (nautical, plural only) The totality of the sailing rig.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. scads, lots, loads, plenty, heaps, much, stacks, gobs, piles, masses, hundreds, oodles, tonnes, tons, reams, scores, zillions, dozens, myriad, gallons, bags, mountains, wads, barrels, basketfuls, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, carloads, chunks, fistfuls, platefuls, rafts, slews, stores, truckloads, pots, packs, pecks, sheaves, bunches, jillion, a lot, a bunch, an abundance, a wealth, a heap, a mass, a good deal … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards.”
      “Then you wait for an escort to walk you the remaining 40 yards to the main building.”
      “Onside from three yards out, he tries to stab a waist-high opportunity past Mark Schwarzer in the Australia goal and misses it completely.”
yardsnaps
  1. plural of yardsnap
yardages
  1. plural of yardage
yardarms
  1. plural of yardarm
yardfuls
  1. plural of yardful
yarders
  1. plural of yarder
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