Yard
- Proper noun. (context, with the definite article: '''the Yard''') (pedlink, Scotland Yard) or (pedlink, New Scotland Yard) .
- Proper noun. (Jamaica) Jamaica.
- Noun. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- Noun. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- Noun. (context, Jamaica) One’s house or home.
- Verb. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- Noun. A staff, rod or stick.
- Noun. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
- Noun. (US, slang) One-hundred dollars.
- Noun. (obsolete) A penis.
- Noun. (context, finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
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