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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

... "Who comes towards me an inch through doubtings dim, In blazing light I do approach a yard towards him." ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... then they go, and others take their places! More soldiers have been in Amiens than I knew were in the world! We had some English—strange, mad men, who wore dresses to their knees and had music that sounded like a dozen cats fighting at night on a back yard fence." ...

— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston

... the same factory, at the same machinery, in making the same fabrics, and, by a fixed rule of the establishment, labor the same number of hours each day; and when, also, the products of each operative can be counted in number, weighed by the pound, or measured by the yard or cubic foot, then it is perfectly practicable to determine, with arithmetical exactness, the productions of one individual and class as compared with those of ...

— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

... topgallant-yard he passed his arm round the skypole, and, adjusting the glass, swept the line of ...

— The Golden Canyon - Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest • G. A. Henty

... self-surrender which makes God's service possible and blessed. The flight into the city of refuge may be quickened by the fear of the pursuer, whose horse's hoofs are heard thundering on the road behind the fugitive, and whose spear is all but felt a yard from his back, but once within the shelter of the city wall, gratitude for deliverance will fill his heart and 'perfect ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

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