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Yard
  • (n.) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
  • (n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
  • (n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
  • (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.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
  • (v. i.) The penis.
  • (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

    Yard (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.

    OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)


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