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Meaning:
Noun:
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- A staff, rod or stick.
- A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
- finance 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- Jamaica One?s house or home.
- nautical A long tapered timber hung on a 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 latter two hang obliquely.
- nautical Any spar carried aloft.
- slang One-hundred dollars.
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Proper noun:
- Jamaican Jamaica
- ('''the Yard''') New Scotland Yard
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