yard

noun

1. 1

   an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

2. 2

   a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

3. 3

   the enclosed land around a house or other building

   it was a small house with almost no yard

4. 4

   an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

5. 5

   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

6. 6

   a tract of land where logs are accumulated

7. 7

   a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

8. 8

   a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

9. 9

   the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100