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yarding


noun

  1. the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
  2. an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
  3. an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.: a prison yard.
  4. an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
  5. a pen or other enclosure for livestock.
  6. an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): navy yard; a brickyard.
  7. an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
  8. Railroads. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where cars are switched and made up into trains and where cars, locomotives, and other rolling stock are kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs.
  9. a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field.
  10. the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
  11. the Yard, British. Scotland Yard(def 2).

verb (used with object)

  1. to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.

noun

  1. a group of animals displayed for salea good yarding

noun

  1. a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metreAbbreviation: yd
  2. a cylindrical wooden or hollow metal spar, tapered at the ends, slung from a mast of a square-rigged or lateen-rigged vessel and used for suspending a sail
  3. short for yardstick (def. 2)
  4. put in the hard yards Australian informal to make a great effort to achieve an end
  5. the whole nine yards informal everything that is required; the whole thing

noun

  1. a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete and often adjoining or surrounded by a building or buildings
    1. an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etca railway yard
    2. (in combination)a brickyard; a shipyard
  2. a US and Canadian word for garden (def. 1)
  3. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
  4. US and Canadian the winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals
  5. Australian and NZ an enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc
  6. NZ short for saleyard, stockyard

verb (tr)

  1. to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard

noun

  1. the Yard British informal short for Scotland Yard

n.1“ground around a house,” Old English geard “enclosure, garden, court, house, yard,” from Proto-Germanic *garda (cf. Old Norse garðr “enclosure, garden, yard;” Old Frisian garda, Dutch gaard, Old High German garto, German Garten “garden;” Gothic gards “house,” garda “stall”), from PIE *gharto-, from root *gher- “to grasp, enclose” (cf. Old English gyrdan “to gird,” Sanskrit ghra- “house,” Albanian garth “hedge,” Latin hortus “garden,” Phrygian -gordum “town,” Greek khortos “pasture,” Old Irish gort “field,” Breton garz “enclosure, garden,” and second element in Latin cohors “enclosure, yard, company of soldiers, multitude”). Lithuanian gardas “pen, enclosure,” Old Church Slavonic gradu “town, city,” and Russian gorod, -grad “town, city” belong to this group, but linguists dispute whether they are independent developments or borrowings from Germanic. Yard sale is attested by 1976. Middle English yerd “yard-land” (mid-15c.) was a measure of about 30 acres. n.2measure of length, Old English gerd (Mercian), gierd (West Saxon) “rod, stick, measure of length,” from West Germanic *gazdijo, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz “stick, rod” (cf. Old Saxon gerda, Old Frisian ierde, Dutch gard “rod;” Old High German garta, German gerte “switch, twig,” Old Norse gaddr “spike, sting, nail”), from PIE *gherdh- “staff, pole” (cf. Latin hasta “shaft, staff”). The nautical yardarm retains the original sense of “stick.” Originally in Anglo-Saxon times a land measure of roughly 5 meters (a length later called rod, pole, or perch). Modern measure of “three feet” is attested from late 14c. (earlier rough equivalent was the ell of 45 inches, and the verge). In Middle English, the word also was a euphemism for “penis” (cf. “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” V.ii.676). Slang meaning “one hundred dollars” first attested 1926, American English.

  1. A unit of length in the US Customary System equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.91 meter). See Table at measurement.

see all wool and a yard wide; in one’s own back yard; whole nine yards.

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