A Quick and Simple Dictionary

yard

1. Proper noun.  (context, with the definite article: '''the Yard''') (pedlink, Scotland Yard) or (pedlink, New Scotland Yard) .
2. Proper noun.  (Jamaica) Jamaica.
3. Noun.  A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
4. Noun.  An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
5. Noun.  (context, Jamaica) One’s house or home.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To confine to a yard.
7. 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.
8. Noun.  (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
9. Noun.  A staff, rod or stick.
10. Noun.  A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
11. Noun.  (US, slang) One-hundred dollars.
12. Noun.  (obsolete) A penis.
13. Noun.  (context, finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.