yard
noun
- unit of length
- a sail-carrying part of the rigging of a sailing ship
noun
- area of land immediately adjacent to a building or a group of buildings
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːd/ / [ˈjɑːd] / /ˈjɑɹd/
name
- Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
“'Suppose we walk across to Scotland Yard, and you can tell me on the way.' At the corner of Derby Street they encountered two men who had just turned out of the Yard.”
- The Metropolitan Police Service
- Jamaica
noun
Etymology: Clipping of milliard.
- 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
“I need to hedge a yard of yen.”
- One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
“How much coke you want? Gimme a yard.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English yerde, yerd, ȝerde, 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”).
- To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
“He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.”