yard   (Sound)

The noun yard has 9 senses

• yard, pace -- (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride)


• yard, grounds, curtilage -- (the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard")


• yard -- (a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town")


• thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard -- (the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100)


• cubic yard, yard -- (a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel))


• yard -- (a tract of land where logs are accumulated)


• yard, railway yard, railyard -- (an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines)


• yard -- (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen)


• yard -- (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock))