yard

yard (nominative singular)
yardy (nominative plural)
yardu (genitive singular)
yardů (genitive plural)
yardu (dative singular)
yardům (dative plural)
yard (accusative singular)
yardy (accusative plural)
yarde (singular vocative)
yardy (plural vocative)
yardu (locative singular)
yardech (locative plural)
yardem (instrumental singular)
yardy (instrumental plural)


yard

'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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

(US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.

1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:

Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:

An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

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

2020 December 15, “We Paid (Remix)”, performed by #GS28 Goose, 0:15–0:21:

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 Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, German Garten, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian and Slovene grad ("town"), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus. Doublet of garden, garth, and gord.


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.

1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead:

The sheep were straggling in a manner that meant walking work to round them, and he supposed he would have to yard them tonight, if she didn't liven up.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 14:

en-verb

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

yards (present singular third-person)
yarding (participle present)
yarded (participle past)
yarded (past)


yard

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).

(informal) Ellipsis of square yard.. a unit of area (common with textiles)

(informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard.. a unit of volume (common in mining and earthmoving)

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.

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

[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.

1774, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 23 July

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, section 57:

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

en-noun

yard (plural yards or (UK colloquial) yard)

yards (plural)
yard (UK colloquial plural)

ráhno

nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang

rod (unit)
yard
yard (disambiguation)
yard (sailing)
yardland

From Middle English ȝerde, yerd, ȝerd, from Old English ġierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀd, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).


yard

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 62:

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


yard

I need to hedge a yard of yen.

(finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.


yard

Unnu love people yard too much.

Y'all love spending time in other people's homes too much.

Nuh weh nuh nice like yard.

“You say use a condom and dem say, "Mi naah use condom, mi have mi wife a mi yard and mi wife clean and me clean."”

1999, Kamala Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (in English), →ISBN, page 138:

You say use a condom and they say, "I'm not going to use a condom. My wife's at home and my wife and I are both clean."

jam-noun

yard (Cassidy/JLU orthography spelling yaad)


yard

yarzi (plural)
yard (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
yardul (accusative definite nominative singular)
yarzi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
yarzii (accusative definite nominative plural)
yard (indefinite singular)
yardului (definite singular)
yarzi (indefinite plural)
yarzilor (definite plural)
yardule (singular vocative)
yarzilor (plural vocative)