yards
/jษษนdz/IPA: /Y AA1 R D Z/
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A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
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The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
syn:garden - 3
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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Oneโs house or home.
Synonyms
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To confine to a yard.
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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).
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Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
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Any spar carried aloft.
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A branch, twig, or shoot.
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A staff, rod, or stick.
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A penis.
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100 dollars.
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The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
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The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1/2 feet.
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The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1/4 acre.
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109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
โI need to hedge a yard of yen.โ
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The totality of the sailing rig.
โHer yards were bare and cockabill.โ
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