| yard | |
| 1. n. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia). | |
| 2. n. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. | |
| 3. n. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc. | |
| 4. n. (Jamaica) One’s house or home. | |
| 5. v. To confine to a yard. | |
| 6. n. 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). | |
| 7. n. Units of similar composition or length in other systems. | |
| 8. n. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft. | |
| 9. n. (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 hu | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete, medical) A penis. | |
| 13. n. (US, slang) 100 dollars. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet. | |
| 16. n. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre. | |
| 17. n. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. | |
| I need to hedge a yard of yen. | |
