Definitions for Yard

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Yard yard

Spelling: [yahrd]

IPA: /yɑrd/

Yard is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Yard (adry).

Definitions for Yard

noun

1. a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
2. Nautical. a long spar, supported more or less at its center, to which the head of a square sail, lateen sail, or lugsail is bent.
3. yard-of-ale.
4. Informal. a large quantity or extent.
5. Slang. one hundred or, usually, one thousand dollars.
6. the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
7. an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
8. an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.:
9. an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
10. a pen or other enclosure for livestock.
11. an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination):
12. an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
13. 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.
14. a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field.
15. the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
16. the Yard, British. Scotland Yard (def 2).

Idioms

1. the whole nine yards, Informal. everything that is pertinent, appropriate, or available. in all ways; in every respect; all the way:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.

Origin of Yard

before 900; Middle English yerd(e), Old English (Anglian) gerd orig., straight twig; cognate with Dutch gard, German Gerte rod

Examples for Yard

But when K., growing uneasy, came out into the yard, the engine had started at last.

But I has not a man in the yard as can ride since Will died.

Parker writes of the “black-faced doe” that he sees in the yard in his new Texas house.

Seeing the crowd, Wilson drove directly to the yard and parked his machine.

Just right for that person who needs a little creative push to do something daring in their yard.

Later that day he made a call from the row of phones in the yard and reached his wife for the first time in six months.

And if I had seen a sheet flying around the yard I would have picked it up.

Scotland yard released a video of the extraordinary crime in an appeal for anyone who recognizes the man to come forward.

Just then Ben Haley, looking from the window, saw some chickens in the yard.

The victim was himself dangerous, and also the strongest man in the yard.