Yard | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Yārd, n.

noun

n. [A-S. geard, gerd, gird, gyrd, a rod, stick, a measure, a yard, O. Sax. gerda, O. Fries. ierde, ieerde, D. garde, gard, O. D. gaerde, gheerde, gerde, geirde, gaert, O. H. Ger. gart, N. H. Ger. gerte, Icel. gyrdi, osier. Cf. Goth. gazds, goad, Icel. gaddr, club.]

Sense 1. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

Sense 2. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, and the like. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

Sense 3. The male member or organ; the penis.

Sense 4. (Naut.) A long, slender piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, suspended upon the mast, by which a sail is extended.

Dock-yard, a place where ships are laid up.—Golden Yard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular designation of the three stars in the belt of Orion.

Yärd, n.

noun

n. [A-S. geard, hedge, allied to gyrdan, to gird, O. Sax. gard, O. Fries. garda, Icel. gardr, Sw. gård, Dan. & D. gaard, Goth. gards, O. H. Ger. gart. Cf. GARDEN.] An inclosure; usually, a small, inclosed place in front of or around a house or barn; as, a court-yard; a cow-yard; a barn-yard.

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 of land, a yard-land. See YARD-LAND.

Yärd, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To confine cattle to the yard; to shut up in a yard; as, to yard cows.