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Yard

jɑːd

Yard definitions
noun
yard yards yd yds
  1. a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings

    "tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard"

    • the garden of a house
  2. an area of land used for a particular purpose or business

    "a builder's yard"

  3. a house and the land attached
    • an urban residential compound comprising a number of small rented dwellings around a shared open area
    • a plot of land, or the grounds of a building, accommodating a number of small rooms let out as living space
  4. (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica

    "life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday"

verb
yard yarded yarding yards
  1. store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard

    "he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs"

  2. put (farm animals) into an enclosure

    "sheep should be yarded even in the spring"

  3. (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter

    "they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together"