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Yard

Yard (yard)
n.(?)
Yard
[OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, stick, a measure, a yard; akin to OFries. ierde, OS. gerda, D. garde, G. gerte, OHG. gartia, gerta, gart, Icel. gaddr a goad, sting, Goth.
  1. A rod; a stick; a staff.
    [Obs.] P. Plowman.

    If men smote it with a yerde. Chaucer.

  2. A branch; a twig.
    [Obs.]

    The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain
    Destroyed hath the green in every yerd.
    Chaucer.

  3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
    [Obs.]
  4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
  5. The penis.
  6. A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.

    Golden Yard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular name of the three stars in the belt of Orion. -- Under yard [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.] Chaucer.


Yard

Yard (yard)
n.
Yard
  1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

    A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks
    In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.
    Chaucer.

  2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

    Liberty of the yard, a liberty, granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not to go beyond those limits. -- Prison yard, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it. -- Yard grass (Bot.), a low-growing grass (Eleusine Indica) having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and like places, especially in the Southern United States. Called also crab grass. -- Yard of land. See Yardland.


Yard

Yard (yard)
v. t.
Yard
  1. To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

Yard

Yard (yard)
n.(?)
Yard
(Zoöl.)
  1. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.













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News: replenish

December 02, 2008
[12:00:04 AM] (PDT)



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Worksop based Wilkinson's to shed jobs in new year
Worksop Today, UK - Nov 30, 2008
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Anderson Water: Rain Helps Drought Conditions, But Not Much
News Channel 7, SC - 9 hours ago
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BBC News, UK - Nov 27, 2008
About 20000 fish have been tipped into two rivers in Somerset to help replenish stocks depleted during freak weather last year. ...
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Wall Street Journal - 58 minutes ago
... economist based in Leesburg, Va., said he sees a risk that losses on FHA loans will be large enough to require Congress to replenish the reserves. ...
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AP HOLDEN BEACH, NC -- Officials in Holden Beach are getting assistance in replenishing a shoreline ravaged by Tropical Storm Hanna in early September. ...

WNCT
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... in subordinated convertible bonds to Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., joining the nation’s biggest banks in selling securities to replenish capital. ...
 
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