yard

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noun

Plural noun:

yardsyairdyeardyerdyodyard

1.
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2.
(Australia, Canada, US)The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
Đồng nghĩa: garden
3.
An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4.
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5.
(Jamaica, Multicultural London English)(Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
6.
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).
7.
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
8.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
9.
(obsolete)A branch, twig, or shoot.
10.
(obsolete)A staff, rod, or stick.
11.
(obsolete)A penis.
[T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.
12.
(US, slang, uncommon)100 dollars.

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verb

V_es/s

yards

V_ing/Gerund

yarding

V_ed/pp

yardedyaird

1.
(transitive)To confine to a yard.
2.
(humorous, intransitive)To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

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Đồng nghĩa

garden hundred ell virgate rood rodarm length See ellsurveying measure See rodlarge unit of area See virgatesmall unit of area See rood

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From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (yard, garden, fence, enclosure), from *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (enclosure, yard), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (to enclose).