yard

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (enclosure, yard) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish gård), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos < *ǵʰortós, from *ǵʰer- 'enclosure' (compare Old Irish gort 'wheat field', Latin hortus 'garden', Tocharian B kerccī 'palace', Lithuanian gardas 'pen, enclosure', Russian город (górod) 'town', Albanian gardh 'fence', Romanian gard, Ancient Greek χόρτος (chórtos, farmyard), Avestan gərədha 'dev's cave', Sanskrit gŗhás

Noun [edit]

yard (plural yards)

  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
  2. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
    • 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 2/2, Death Walks in Eastrepps[1]:
      A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
  3. (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
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Verb [edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
    • 1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
      As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle English yerd, ȝerd, from Old English ġierd, ġerd (yard, rod, staff, stake, fagot, twig; measure of length), from Proto-Germanic *gazdijō. Cognate with Dutch gard (twig), German Gerte.

Noun [edit]

yard (plural yards)

  1. (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.
  2. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft (Wikipedia).
  3. A staff, rod or stick.
  4. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; Wikipedia).
  5. (US, slang) One-hundred dollars.
  6. (obsolete) The penis.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
      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 [] .
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Etymology 3 [edit]

Corruption of French milliard.

Noun [edit]

yard (plural yards)

  1. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
    I need to hedge a yard of yen.

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yard m (plural yards)

  1. yard (unit of length)

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yard f (plural yard)

  1. yard (unit of length)

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