1. A fundamental unit of length in both the U.S. customary system and the british imperial system, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter). see table at measurement.
2. nautical A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.
3. A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.
4. A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.
5. an area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.
6. A winter pasture for deer or other grazing animals.
7. an enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.
8. to enclose, collect, or put into or as if into a yard.
9. to be gathered into or as if into a yard.

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (wikipedia).
2. an enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
3. one’s house or home.
4. to confine to a yard.
5. 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.
6. any spar carried aloft (wikipedia).
7. A staff, rod or stick.
8. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the us and uk; wikipedia).
9. one-hundred dollars.
10. the penis.
11. 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

1. A rod; a stick; a staff.
2. A branch; a twig.
3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of english and american measure.
5. the penis.
6. 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.
7. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
8. an inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn
9. an inclosure within which any work or business is carried on
10. to confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard.

1. to summon for hiring: a process formerly used in the isle of man, and executed by the coroner of the sheading or district on behalf of the deemsters and others entitled to a priority of choice of the servants at a fair or market.
2. to put into or inclose in a yard; shut up in a yard, as cattle: as, to yard cows.
3. to resort to winter pastures: said of moose and deer.
4. to shoot deer in their winter yards.
5. A rod; a stick; a wand; a branch or twig.
6.
7. rule; direction; correction.
8. A measuring-rod or -stick of the exact length of 3 feet or 36 imperial inches; a yardstick.
9. the fundamental unit of english long measure.
10. nautical, a long cylindrical spar having a rounded taper toward each end, slung crosswise to a mast and used for suspending certain of the sails called either square or lateen sails according as the yard is suspended at right angles or obliquely.
11. A long piece of timber, as a rafter.
12. in heraldry, a bearing representing a staff or wand divided into equal parts, as if for a measure.
13. the virile member; the penis.
14. hence— A pint of ale, beer, or wine served in a yard-glass, and usually drunk for amusement or on a wager, on account of the likelihood of spilling or choking. compare ale-yard.
15. A piece of inclosed ground of small or moderate size; particularly, a piece of ground inclosing or adjoining a house or other building, or inclosed by it: as, a front yard; a court-yard; a dooryard; a churchyard; an inn-yard; a barn-yard; a vineyard.
16. an inclosure within which any work or business is carried on: as, a brick-yard; a wood-yard; a tan-yard; a dock-yard; a stock-yard; a navy-yard.
17. in railway usage, the space or tract adjacent to a railway station or terminus, which is used for the switching or making up of trains, the accommodation of rolling-stock, and similar purposes.
18. A garden; now, chiefly, a kitchen- or cottage-garden: as, a kale-yard.
19. the winter pasture or browsing-ground of moose and deer; a moose-yard.
20. A measure of land in england, varying locally: in Buckinghamshire, formerly, 28 to 40 acres; in Wiltshire, a quarter of an acre. compare yard-land.

1. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
2. a tract of land where logs are accumulated
3. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
4. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
5. the enclosed land around a house or other building
6. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
7. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
8. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
9. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines