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an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town" a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 |
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