" yard "

[Noun]  | "yard" | \ ˈyärd \

1: a small usually walled and often paved area open to the sky and adjacent to a building : court

2: the grounds of a building or group of buildings

3: the grounds immediately surrounding a house that are usually covered with grass

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English yerd, going back to Old English geard "fence, enclosure, dwelling, home, district, country," going back to Germanic *garđa- (whence also Old Saxon gard "garden, dwelling, world," Middle Dutch gaert "garden, yard," Old High German gart "enclosure, circle, enclosed piece of property," Old Norse garðr "enclosure, courtyard," Gothic gards (i-stem) "house, household, courtyard"; from an n-stem *garđan-: Old Frisian garda "family property, courtyard," Old Saxon gardo "garden," Old High German garto), perhaps (if from *ghortós) going back to Indo-European *ghortos "enclosure," whence also Old Irish gort "arable or pasture field," Welsh garth "field, enclosure, fold," Breton garz "hedge," Latin hortus "garden," Greek chórtos "farmyard, pasturage";

  * Note : The above is only one possible account of this somewhat problematic etymon. If not from a Verner's Law variant of a putative stem *ghor-to-, the Germanic word could go back to *ghordho-, which would correspond to Slavic *gordŭ (Old Church Slavic gradŭ "town, garden, yard," Russian górod "city," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian grâd) and Lithuanian gar͂das "pen, fold." The Slavic and Baltic words have, alternatively, been taken as loans from Germanic. This explanation would not, however, cover Albanian gardh "fence, wattled partition," or, more crucially, Sanskrit gṛháḥ "house," if it goes back to *ghr̥dhos, a zero-grade derivative. The Germanic etymon has traditionally been connected with a hypothetical verb base *ǵher- "grasp, enclose," see:n in Sanskrit harati "(s/he) takes, fetches, bears," jahrur "were fetched," though the Albanian, Balto-Slavic and Sanskrit words do not show a palatovelar. A palatovelar is evidenced, however, in a group of semantically related words: Lithuanian žárdas "rack for drying grain, flax or pease, cattle hurdle," ža͂rdis "fenced pasture," Old Prussian sardis "fence," regional Russian zoród, zaród "stack of hay or grain sheaves, enclosure around a stack." Also associated with Germanic *garđa- is a strong verb *gerđan- hypothetically evidenced by Gothic *-gairdan (attested only as the past participle bigaurdans, translating Greek perizōsámenos "girding oneself") and a weak verb *gurdjan- with zero grade—see: {gird:1|gird:1}, {girdle:1|girdle:1}, {girth:1|girth:1}.;

[Noun]  | "yard" 

1: any of various units of measure: such as

2: a unit of length equal in the U.S. to 0.9144 meter

3: a unit of volume equal to a cubic yard

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English yerd, yerde "stick, pole, rod, spar supporting a sail, unit of measure," going back to Old English gierd "stick, rod," going back to Germanic *gazdjō (whence Old Frisian ierde "stick," Old Saxon gerdia, Old High German gerta), derivative of *gazda- "stick, rod" (whence Old High German gart "stick," Old Norse gaddr "goad, spike," Gothic gazds "sting"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *ghazdh- "stick, something pointed" (whence Latin hasta "spear," Middle Irish gat "withe, osier," probably also gas "shoot, twig"), probably a loanword from an unknown source;

[Noun]  | "yard grass" 

1: a tall annual Old World grass (Eleusine indica) widely distributed as a weed —called also goosegrass

Origin: 1822 ;

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[Noun]  | "yard line" 

1: any of a series of marked or imaginary lines one yard apart on a football field that are parallel to the goal lines and that indicate the distance to the nearest goal line

Origin: 1898 ;

[Noun]  | "yard-long bean" | \ ˈyärd-ˈlȯŋ- \

1: the edible 1- to 3-foot (0.3- to 0.9-meter) long thin stringless pod of a south Asian plant of a subspecies (Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis) of the cowpea; also : the plant

Origin: 1926 ;

[Noun]  | "yard sale" 

1: garage sale

Origin: 1972 ;

[Noun]  | "yard work" 

1: the work of maintaining or cultivating the yard or lawn of a home

Origin: 1865 ;

[Adjective]  | "yard" 

1: of, relating to, or employed in the yard surrounding a building

2: of, relating to, or employed in a railroad yard

Origin: 15th century ;

[Verb]  | "yard" 

1: to drive into or confine in a restricted area : herd, pen

2: to deliver to or store in a yard

3: to congregate in or as if in a yard

Origin: 1758 ;

[Plural noun]  | "yard goods" 

1: fabrics sold by the yard : piece goods

Origin: 1895 ;

[Noun]  | "yard" 

[Noun]  | "yard" 

[Noun]  | "yard sale" 

[Noun]  | "yard sales"