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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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