yard
noun
[ jɑːd ]
• a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).
• "a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth"
• a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from.
• 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill.
• "it cost two hundred up front—one yard for Maurice, one for the girl"
Origin:
Old English gerd (in yard1 (sense 2)), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’ and German Gerte .
yard
noun
• a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings.
• "tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard"
• an area of land used for a particular purpose or business.
• "a builder's yard"
Similar:
workshop,
works,
factory,
garage,
plant,
foundry,
mill,
industrial unit,
business unit,
shipyard,
manufactory,
• a house and the land attached.
• (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica.
• "life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday"
yard
verb
• store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.
• "he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs"
• put (farm animals) into an enclosure.
• "sheep should be yarded even in the spring"
• (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter.
• "they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together"
Origin:
Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.
