Yard
[jɑːd] or [jɑd]
Definition
(noun.) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock).
(noun.) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen.
(noun.) the enclosed land around a house or other building; 'it was a small house with almost no yard'.
(noun.) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines.
(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'.
(noun.) a tract of land where logs are accumulated.
(noun.) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride.
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
(v. i.) A branch; a twig.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
(v. i.) The penis.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
Typist: Rachel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Enclosure, COMPOUND.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
n. an enclosed place esp. near a building as 'prison-yard ' or where any special work is carried on as 'brick-yard ' 'wood-yard ' 'dock-yard ' 'navy-yard:' a garden.—v.t. to enclose in a yard.—ns. Yard′age the use of a yard or the charge made for such: the cutting of coal at so much per yard; Yard′-land the amount of land held by a tenant in villeinage in older English usage varying from 15 to 40 acres; Yard′man the person having special charge of a farm-yard: one employed in a railway-yard in making up trains &c.; Yard′-mas′ter one who has the special oversight of a railway-yard.
n. an English measure of 3 feet or 36 inches: a long beam on a mast for spreading square sails: the penis.—ns. Yard′-arm either half of a ship's yard (right or left) from the centre to the end; Yard′stick a stick 3 feet long any standard of measurement—also Yard′wand.
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Examples
- I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At length, Mr Boffin entreated to be allowed a quarter of an hour's grace, and a cooling walk of that duration in the yard. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not wanting to go through the yard, because of the dogs, she turned off along the hill-side to descend on the pond from above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the yard, were Mr Pancks and Mr Rugg, come to see the last touch given to their work. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Plornish lived in Bleeding Heart Yard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The screed, or frill of the cap, stood a quarter of a yard broad round the face of the wearer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Helstone and Moore trotted forth from the mill-yard gates, at the head of their very small company, in the best possible spirits. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They come to a building in the yard with an office on an upper floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It wasn't liked in the yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He played with her as a child when in that yard a child she played. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Being built on the hillside, its basement opens into the rear yard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The London train whizzed by, drew back some yards, and in Mr. Bell was hurried by the impatient guard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In front of both the ground was clear for several hundred yards and then became wooded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Below, the water extended into the woods several hundred yards back from the bank on the east side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had not gone more than a few hundred yards when I saw a body of troops marching past me not fifty yards away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At the distance of a few hundred yards a man might fire at you all day without your finding it out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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