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   yard

   /jɑːd/

   noun

   • 1. a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings: British "tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard"
   • ▪ the garden of a house. North American Similar backyardgardencourtyardcourtquadrangleenclosurecloistercloseinformal:quad
   • 2. an area of land used for a particular purpose or business: "a builder's yard" Similar workshopworksfactorygarageplantfoundrymillindustrial unitbusiness unitshipyardarchaic:manufactory
   • ▪ another term for Scotland Yard informal British
   • 3. a house and the land attached. West Indian
   • ▪ an urban residential compound comprising a number of small rented dwellings around a shared open area.
   • ▪ a plot of land, or the grounds of a building, accommodating a number of small rooms let out as living space. South African
   • 4. (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica: "life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday"

   verb

   • 1. store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard: North American "he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs"
   • 2. put (farm animals) into an enclosure: "sheep should be yarded even in the spring"
   • 3. (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter: North American "they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together"

   Word Origin Old Englishgeard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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