yard

1. (n) A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. 2. (n) (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. 3. (n) An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. 4. (n) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc. 5. (n) (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home. 6. (v) (transitive) To confine to a yard. 7. (n) A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK). 8. (n) Units of similar composition or length in other systems. 9. (n) (nautical) Any spar carried aloft. 10. (n) (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. 11. (n) (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars. 12. (v) (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along. 13. (n) (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. 14. (n) (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth. 15. (n) (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot. 16. (n) (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick. 17. (n) (obsolete) A penis. 18. (n) (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres. 19. (n) (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet. 20. (n) (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre. 21. (n) (Jamaica) Jamaica 22. (n) (figurative, metonymic) The Metropolitan Police Service 23. (n) Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard 24. (n) (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles. [A unit of area (abbreviation sq yd or sq. yd.) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are one yard long (i.e. 3 feet by 3 feet or 9 square feet).] 25. (n) (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving. [A unit of volumetric measurement equivalent to a cube one yard in each dimension.]