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yard
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??d/
- (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA(key): /j??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English yerd, yard, ?erd, ?eard, from Old English ?eard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard), from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose”) (Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian ?????? (górod, “town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan ????????????????????????????? (g?r?dha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit ??? (g?ha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, Medieval Latin jardinus. Doublet of garden.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- Synonym: (UK) garden
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (Jamaican, MLE) One’s house or home.
Derived terms
See also Yard
Translations
Verb
yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?erde, yerd, ?erd, from Old English ?ierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga?d, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (nautical) 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.
- (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
- (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
- (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1?2 feet.
- (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1?4 acre.
Synonyms
- (arm length): See ell
- ($100): See hundred
- (surveying measure): See rod
- (large unit of area): See virgate
- (small unit of area): See rood
Hypernyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Hyponyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of milliard.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
References
Anagrams
- Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray
Czech
Noun
yard m
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- yard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja?d/
Noun
yard m (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- “yard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English yard
Noun
yard f (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
- Synonym: iarda
Further reading
- yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- yaad, yawd
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??d/, /j??d/
- Hyphenation: yard
Noun
yard
- home
Noun
yard (plural: yard dem, quantified: yard)
- yard
Further reading
- Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 617
Middle English
Noun
yard
- Alternative form of yerd
yard From the web:
- = 0.9144 meters
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parrel
English
Alternative forms
- parral
Etymology
From French appareil.
Noun
parrel (plural parrels)
- (nautical) A sliding loop of rope or metal, around the mast of a ship, to which a yard or gaff is fitted.
- 1998, Donna J. Souza, The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas, Springer, page 76,
- Excavating with the suction dredge, the field crew located a parrel, and a second parrel was found a short distance away.
- 2007, Derek Van Loan, The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig, Paradise Cay Publications, 2nd Edition, page 64,
- The batten parrels are best made of large diameter polypropylene line because it slides well.
- 2012, Henry B. Culver, The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper Ships, Dover Publications, page 229,
- The earliest form of parrel was probably a rope loosely lashed about the mast and yard.
- 1998, Donna J. Souza, The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas, Springer, page 76,
Synonyms
- (sliding loop to which yard or gaff is fitted): rackie (Scotland)
Derived terms
- parrel bead
Anagrams
- LARPer, PERRLA, larper
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