yard

noun yards · yaird · yeard · yerd · yod

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
2. Australia, Canada, US The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

   Similar: garden

3. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5. Jamaica, Multicultural London English One’s house or home. Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead Cuz I run up in yards, No vest, tryna ching man’s chest And leave him dead

verb yards · yarding · yarded · yaird · yeard

1. transitive To confine to a yard. 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 yards · yard · yaird · yeard · yerd · yod

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK). Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking a
2. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.

   Similar: virgate, rood

3. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
4. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
5. Any spar carried aloft.
6. 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 last two hang obliquely.
7. obsolete A branch, twig, or shoot.
8. obsolete A staff, rod, or stick.
9. obsolete A penis. Loues her by the foot. Dum. He may not by the yard.
10. US, slang, uncommon 100 dollars.
11. obsolete The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres. You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
12. obsolete The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

    Similar: rod

13. obsolete The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
14. A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.

Similar: ell, $100

verb yards · yarding · yarded · yaird · yeard

1. humorous, intransitive To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along. He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

noun yards · yaird · yeard · yerd · yod

1. 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. I need to hedge a yard of yen.
2. slang One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth. How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.

proper noun

1. Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard 'Suppose we walk across to Scotland Yard, and you can tell me on the way.' At the corner of Derby Street they encountered two men who had just turned out of the Yard.
2. figuratively, metonymically The Metropolitan Police Service
3. Jamaica Jamaica
4. A surname.