Meaning of Yard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
3. 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).
4. 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
5. The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
   Australia, Canada, US
6. The Metropolitan Police Service
   figuratively, metonymically
7. Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
8. One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
   slang
9. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
10. Jamaica
    Jamaica
11. Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
12. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
13. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
14. One’s house or home.
    Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English
15. Any spar carried aloft.
16. 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.
17. A branch, twig, or shoot.
    obsolete
18. A staff, rod, or stick.
    obsolete
19. A penis.
    obsolete
20. 100 dollars.
    US, slang, uncommon
21. The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
    obsolete
22. The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
    obsolete
23. The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“'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.”

“A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.”

“Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.”

“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”

“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 at it.”

“Loues her by the foot. Dum. He may not by the yard.”

“there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].”

“[T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.”

“You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.”

“I need to hedge a yard of yen.”

“How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.”

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