yard

Noun

• an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

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

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

• a tract of land where logs are accumulated

• a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

• the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

• 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
    

• the enclosed land around a house or other building
  • it was a small house with almost no yard
    

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  railway yard , railyard , cubic yard , grounds , curtilage , pace