yard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the enclosed land around a house or other building

   it was a small house with almost no yard

2. 2
   noun

   a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

   they opened a repair yard on the edge of town

3. 3
   noun

   a unit of volume, as for sand or gravel

   We'll need 1000 yards to finish this project.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   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 at it.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos Proto-Germanic *gardaz Proto-West Germanic *gard Old English ġeard Middle English yerd English yard From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”). See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish…