yard

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.Examples: "As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods."; "The sheep were straggling in a manner that meant walking work to round them, and he supposed he would have to yard them tonight, if she didn't liven up."transitive

1. 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).Synonyms: virgate, roodabbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

2. 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).abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

4. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

5. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.obsolete

6. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.obsolete

1. (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.Examples: "He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true."humorousintransitive

1. (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.Examples: "I need to hedge a yard of yen."

2. (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.Examples: "How much coke you want? Gimme a yard."slang

1. (figurative, metonymic) The Metropolitan Police Servicefigurativelymetonymically

2. (Jamaica) JamaicaJamaica