Noun
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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
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an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- railway yard - railyard -
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
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a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- cubic yard -
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- one thousand - 1000 - m - k - g -
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"
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the enclosed land around a house or other building
"it was a small house with almost no yard"
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a unit of length equal to 3 feet
defined as 91.44 centimeters
originally taken to be the average length of a stride