Dictionary Entry
yard
yard is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rod; a stick; a staff. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
A rod; a stick; a staff.
- 2intransitive verb
A branch; a twig.
- 3intransitive verb
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
- 4intransitive verb
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
- 5intransitive verb
The penis.
- 6intransitive verb
A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
- 7noun
An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
- 8noun
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
- 9transitive verb
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
- 10noun
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- 11noun
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- 12noun
the enclosed land around a house or other building
"it was a small house with almost no yard"
- 13noun
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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- 14noun
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"
- 15noun
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
- 16noun
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- 17noun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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- 18noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
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