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Yard
YARD, n.
1. A measure of three feet or thirty six inches. It is just seven niths of the Paris ell.
2. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of or around a house or barn. The yard in front of a house is called a court, and sometimes a court-yard. In the United States, a small yard is fenced round a barn for confining cattle, and called barn-yard or cow-yard.
3. In ships, a long slender piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, suspended upon the mast, by which a sail is extended.
Yard of land, in old books, a certain quantity of land, but different in different countries. In some counties it was 15 acres, in others 20 or 24, and even 40.
Dock-yard, a place where ships are laid up.
Prison yard, primarily an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it. Hence liberty of the yard, is a liberty granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by the law, on his giving bond not to go beyond those limits.
YARD, v.t. To confine cattle to the yard; as, to yard cows. [A farmers word.]
yard appears in definitions for these words:
About Acre Aker Aloft Antennae Arshine Backside Barberry Barra Base-court Basking-shark Bay-yarn Bazat Bend Bilander Brace Brail Breastbone Breastrope Buntlines Career Casket Cat-harpings Clevy Clew-carnets Commensurability Corposant Cringle Cross-jack Crotch Curtilage Dock-yard Drops Dungyard Earing Ell Fairy Fall Farmyard Fish Forebrace Foremast Furl Furled Furling Galanga Garden Garth Gasket Gird Girth Greenbroom Hand Harping Haul Home Horse Hull Idiot Jackass Jears Jet Keelhaul Keep Lash Lateen Leech-line Lift Long Luggs Lys Main-sail Main-yard Man-midwife Martinet Mast Mat Measure Menagery Meteor Meteyard Mile Mizzen Moth Nail Orchard Panch Parrel Pass Passy-measure Pay Peak Perch Polacre Pole Portoise Poultry-yard Puddening Quirk Reef Reef-tackle Reefed Reefing Rig Rise Rod Rood Rope-bands Saddle Sail Sail-yard Sharp Sheave-hole Sloth Spar Spred Spring Sprit-sail Square Square-rigged Square-sail Stack-yard Steelyard Studding-sail Swath Sway Tackling Thrum Timber-yard Top-chain Topped Traverse Truss Unbend Unbending Unbent Unsling Verst Vinyard Virgate Wair Woold Yard Yard-arm Yard-wand
About Acre Aker Aloft Antennae Arshine Backside Barberry Barra Base-court Basking-shark Bay-yarn Bazat Bend Bilander Brace Brail Breastbone Breastrope Buntlines Career Casket Cat-harpings Clevy Clew-carnets Commensurability Corposant Cringle Cross-jack Crotch Curtilage Dock-yard Drops Dungyard Earing Ell Fairy Fall Farmyard Fish Forebrace Foremast Furl Furled Furling Galanga Garden Garth Gasket Gird Girth Greenbroom Hand Harping Haul Home Horse Hull Idiot Jackass Jears Jet Keelhaul Keep Lash Lateen Leech-line Lift Long Luggs Lys Main-sail Main-yard Man-midwife Martinet Mast Mat Measure Menagery Meteor Meteyard Mile Mizzen Moth Nail Orchard Panch Parrel Pass Passy-measure Pay Peak Perch Polacre Pole Portoise Poultry-yard Puddening Quirk Reef Reef-tackle Reefed Reefing Rig Rise Rod Rood Rope-bands Saddle Sail Sail-yard Sharp Sheave-hole Sloth Spar Spred Spring Sprit-sail Square Square-rigged Square-sail Stack-yard Steelyard Studding-sail Swath Sway Tackling Thrum Timber-yard Top-chain Topped Traverse Truss Unbend Unbending Unbent Unsling Verst Vinyard Virgate Wair Woold Yard Yard-arm Yard-wand
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