A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
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.