YARD

Yard

A yard is a unit of length in the imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Historically a yard was also used in other systems of units. The yard is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches. Under an agreement in 1959 between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, the yard was legally defined to be exactly 0.9144 metres. Prior to that date, the legal definition of the yard when expressed in terms of metric units varied slightly from country to country.

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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.

Noun (etymology 2)

  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. The penis.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. 109, A billion; a thousand millions or milliard.
    I need to hedge a yard of yen.

Verb

  1. To confine to a yard.


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