A wall around a city, built to define the city's boundaries, and sometimes to protect it from aggressors.
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is 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.
100 dollars.
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
Any spar carried aloft.
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
One’s house or home.
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
To confine to a yard.