Yard

Noun

 * 1) A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
 * 2) An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
 * 3)  One’s house or home.

Verb

 * 1)  To confine to a yard.
 * 2) * 1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
 * As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Any spar carried aloft.
 * 3) A staff, rod or stick.
 * 4) A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
 * 5) 🇺🇸 One-hundred dollars.
 * 6)  A penis.

Derived terms

 * all wool and a yard wide
 * by the yard
 * clay yard
 * cloth yard, cloth-yard
 * cubic yard
 * fore-yard, foreyard
 * golden yard
 * jackyard
 * main yard, main-yard
 * mast-yard
 * meteyard


 * mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard
 * royal yardman
 * sailyard
 * six-yard box
 * square yard
 * steelyard
 * under the yard
 * upper yardman
 * yardage
 * yard-arm, yardarm


 * yard-coal
 * yarded
 * yardel
 * yard-fell
 * yard goods
 * yardland
 * yard-long
 * yard-measure
 * yard of ale
 * yard of clay


 * yard of land
 * yard of lime
 * yard of mortar
 * yard of satin
 * yard of stone
 * yard of tin
 * yard-rope
 * yard-seam
 * yard-stick, yardstick
 * yard-wand, yardwand
 * whole nine yards

Noun

 * 1)  109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
 * I need to hedge a yard of yen.

Adjectives for Yard
bustling; spacious; industrial; back; snowy; discreet; embowered; obscure; diminutive.

Verbs for Yard
border—; bound—; circumscribe—; clutter —; confine to—; embrace—; encamp in—; enclose—; fence—; festoon—; flank—; garland—; litter—; provision—; restock—; romp in—; skirt—; span—; survey—; — affords; —extends.

Thesaurus
C, C-note, G, G-note, M, arena, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bindery, blockade, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bound, box in, brewery, brickyard, buck, cage, cannery, cartwheel, cent, century, chamber, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, cincture, close, close in, compass, confine, contain, container, coop, coop in, coop up, copper, cordon, cordon off, corral, court, courtyard, creamery, curtilage, dairy, defense plant, delimited field, dime, distillery, dockyard, dollar, dollar bill, encircle, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, fence in, field, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flour mill, fold, four bits, frogskin, grand, ground, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hedge in, hem in, house in, hundred-dollar bill, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, industrial park, industrial zone, iron man, jail, kennel, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, lakh, leaguer, list, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mew, mew up, mill, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, mint, munitions plant, myriad, nickel, oil refinery, one hundred thousand, packing house, pale, paling, park, pen, pen in, penny, plant, pocket, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, quad, quadrangle, quarantine, quarter, rail in, red cent, refinery, sawbuck, sawmill, shipyard, shrine, shut in, shut up, silver dollar, skin, smacker, square, stable, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, surround, tannery, ten cents, ten thousand, ten-spot, tenner, theater, thou, thousand, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, toft, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, wall in, winery, wrap, yard up, yards

Etymology 1
geard:, from (compare Dutch gaard:, obsolete German Gart:, Swedish gård:), from  'enclosure' (compare Old Irish gort: 'wheat field', Latin hortus: 'garden', Tocharian B kerccī: 'palace', Lithuanian gardas: 'pen, enclosure', Russian город: 'town', Albanian gardh: 'frence', Ancient Greek chórtos: 'farmyard', Avestan gərədha: 'dev's cave', Sanskrit gŗhás: 'house').

Etymology 2
gerd:, from West. Cognate with Dutch gard:, German Gerte:.

Etymology 3
Corruption of milliard:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (Hadiiqa)
 * Armenian: բակ
 * Chinese: 院子 (yuànzi)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, jardin
 * German:
 * Greek:, αυλή
 * Hebrew: גן
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 庭 (にわ, niwa)


 * Korean: 뜰 (tteul), 마당 (madang)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: pagalms
 * Lithuanian: kiemas
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: двориште, авлија
 * Roman: dvorište, avlija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: avlu
 * Volapük: yad


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: kenttä, aitaus, tarha
 * Irish:


 * Japanese: 置き場
 * Korean: 울안 (urAn)

Derived terms
See also Yard


 * apple-yard
 * back yard, back-yard, backyard
 * barn-yard, barnyard
 * bone-yard, boneyard
 * brickyard
 * castle yard
 * chapel yard
 * churchyard
 * court-yard, courtyard
 * deer-yard, deeryard
 * dockyard
 * door-yard, dooryard
 * dung-yard
 * farm-yard, farmyard
 * fore-yard
 * front yard
 * graveyard
 * green-yard, greenyard
 * grip-yard


 * hemp-yard
 * hop-yard
 * inn-yard, innyard
 * junk-yard, junkyard
 * kailyard, kaleyard
 * kirkyard
 * knacker's yard
 * liberty of the yard
 * lumber-yard, lumberyard
 * marshaling yard, marshalling yard
 * mast-yard
 * navy yard, navy-yard
 * olive-yard
 * ox-yard, oxyard
 * palace yard
 * par-yard
 * poultry-yard
 * press-yard
 * rick-yard, rickyard


 * rope-yard
 * sale-yard, saleyard
 * schoolyard
 * scrapyard
 * shipyard
 * show-yard
 * stable-yard
 * stack-yard, stackyard
 * steelyard
 * stockyard
 * straw yard
 * switchyard
 * tan-yard, tanyard
 * tenter-yard
 * tilt-yard, tiltyard
 * timber-yard, timberyard
 * vinegar-yard
 * vineyard
 * wood-yard, woodyard


 * yardage
 * yard bird, yardbird
 * yard-boy
 * yard broom
 * yard-dike
 * yard-dog
 * yardful
 * yard grass, yard-grass
 * yardhove


 * yarding
 * yardland
 * yardman
 * yardmaster
 * yard-money
 * yardperson
 * yard sale
 * yardsman
 * yardswoman
 * yard work, yard-work

Noun

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:


 * Russian: рея
 * Swedish:


 * Esperanto:


 * Esperanto: ,


 * French:


 * Armenian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: yard, verge
 * Greek: γιάρδα
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ヤード


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: jard
 * Portuguese: jarda
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: గజం

Anagrams

 * adry
 * dray

Noun

 * 1) yard

Noun

 * 1) yard

Synonyms

 * iarda