(yärd) noun
1. The standard English and American measure of length: 3 feet, or 36 inches, or 0.914 meter.
2. A yardstick.
3. Naut. A long, slender, tapering spar set crosswise on a mast and used to support sails. [OE gyrd a rod, a measure of length]

(yärd) noun
1. A tract of ground enclosed or set apart.
2. An enclosure, usually small and near a residence or other building; by extension, the grounds near a house, college, or university, whether enclosed or not.
3. An enclosure used for some specific work: often in composition: a brickyard, shipyard.
4. An enclosure or piece of ground adjacent to a railroad station, used for making up trains and for storing the rolling stock.
5. The winter pasturing ground of deer and moose: a moose yard.
6. An enclosure for animals, poultry, etc.
—v.t. To put or collect into or as into a yard.
—v.i. To gather into an enclosure or yard. [OE geard an enclosure]