yard (noun)
1: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride [syn: pace]
2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: grounds, curtilage]
3: 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"
4: an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines [syn: [[railway yard]]]
5: an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
6: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: cubic yard]
7: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
8: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou]