yard

a small open area next to a building or inside its walls, usually with no grass or plants

(US, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

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.

(informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.

(informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.

Any spar carried aloft.

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 last two hang obliquely.

(US, slang) 100 dollars.

(slang) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.

(slang) One’s house or home.

10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.

(no longer used) A branch, twig, or shoot.

(no longer used) A staff, rod, or stick.

(no longer used) A penis.

(no longer used) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

(no longer used) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

(no longer used) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

To confine to a yard.

(humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.