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1.nounA small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2.nounThe property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
3.nounAn enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4.nounA place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5.nounOne’s house or home.
6.verbTo confine to a yard.
7.nounA 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).
8.nounUnits of similar composition or length in other systems.
9.nounAny spar carried aloft.
10.nounA branch, twig, or shoot.
11.nounA staff, rod, or stick.
12.nounA penis.
13.noun100 dollars.
14.nounThe yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
15.nounThe rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1/2 feet.
16.nounThe rood, area bound by a square rod, 1/4 acre.
17.noun109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard."I need to hedge a yard of yen."
18.nounThe totality of the sailing rig."Her yards were bare and cockabill."