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Definition of Yard
Yard

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

A rod; a stick; a staff.

A branch; a twig.

A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

The penis.

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.

An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

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Yard Quotations

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
Louis Armstrong

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Yard Translations

yard in Afrikaans is yard
yard in Dutch is yard, ra
yard in Finnish is piha
yard in German is Yard, Hof, Hof
yard in Italian is ulna, cortile
yard in Spanish is corral, patio

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