Yard
Meaning of Yard
- a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).
a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth
- a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from.
- 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill.
it cost two hundred up front—one yard for Maurice, one for the girl
Old English gerd (in yard1 (sense 2)), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’ and German Gerte .
noun- a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings.
tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard
- an area of land used for a particular purpose or business.
a builder's yard
- a house and the land attached.
- (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica.
life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday
- store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.
he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs
Canadian operators never practised yarding on a wider scale
- put (farm animals) into an enclosure.
sheep should be yarded even in the spring
- (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter.
they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together
Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.
Information about Yard
- The plural form of Yard is: Yards.
- Languages in which Yard is used:
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Hyphenation of Yard
Yard
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- Yard is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Yard synonyms
Meaning pace:
Meaning grounds:
Meaning thousand:
thousand, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou
Meaning a room or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired:
Meaning a place or premises in which industrial or manufacturing processes are carried out:
Meaning a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine:
Meaning a building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles:
Meaning a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place:
Meaning a workshop or factory for casting metal:
Meaning a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour:
Meaning an enclosed area of land where ships are built and repaired:
Meaning a factory:
Anagrams of Yard
Words that rhyme with Yard
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