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noun
1.
the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
2.
an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
3.
an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.: a prison yard.
4.
an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
5.
EXPANDa pen or other enclosure for livestock.
6.
an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): navy yard; a brickyard.
7.
an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
8.
Railroads. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where cars are switched and made up into trains and where cars, locomotives, and other rolling stock are kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs.
9.
a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field.
10.
the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
11.
COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
12.
to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.
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Yarding
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Origin:
before 900; Middle English yerd, Old English geard enclosure; cognate with Dutch gaard garden, Old Norse garthr yard, Gothic gards house, Latin hortus garden, Old Irish gort field; akin to garden
before 900; Middle English yerd, Old English geard enclosure; cognate with Dutch gaard garden, Old Norse garthr yard, Gothic gards house, Latin hortus garden, Old Irish gort field; akin to garden
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yard
"measure of length," O.E. gerd (Mercian), gierd (W.Saxon) "rod, stick, measure of length," from W.Gmc. *gazdijo, from P.Gmc. *gazdaz "stick, rod" (cf. O.S. gerda, O.Fris. ierde, Du. gard "rod;" O.H.G. garta, Ger. gerte "switch, twig," O.N. gaddr "spike, sting, nail"), from PIE *gherdh- "staff, pole"
EXPAND (cf. L. hasta "shaft, staff"). In O.E. it was originally a land measure of roughly 5 meters (a length later called rod, pole or perch). Modern measure of "three feet" is attested from late 14c. (earlier rough equivalent was the ell of 45 inches, and the verge). In M.E., the word also was a euphemism for "penis" (cf. "Love's Labour's Lost," V.ii.676). Slang meaning "one hundred dollars" first attested 1926, Amer.Eng. Yardstick is 1816. The nautical yard-arm (1550s) retains the original sense of "stick." In 19c. British naval custom, it was permissible to begin drinking when the sun was over the yard-arm.
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A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter). See Table at measurement. |
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