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Noun yard has 8 senses

yard, pace - a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
--₁ is a kind of linear unit
--₁ is a part of
fathom, fthm; chain; perch, rod, pole; lea
--₁ has parts: foot, ft
yard, grounds, curtilage - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
--₂ is a kind of field
--₂ has particulars:
backyard; court, courtyard; dooryard; front yard; garden; playground; side yard
yard - 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"
--₃ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₃ has particulars: junkyard; schoolyard; churchyard, God's acre; tiltyard
yard, railway yard - an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
--₄ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₄ has particulars: marshalling yard
yard - an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
--₅ is a kind of enclosure
--₅ has particulars:
barnyard; chicken yard, hen yard, chicken run, fowl run; farmyard; stockyard
cubic yard, yard - a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
--₆ is a kind of volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
yard - a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
--₇ is a kind of spar
--₇ is a part of sailing vessel, sailing ship
--₇ has part: yardarm
--₇ has particulars: main yard
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard - the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
--₈ is a kind of large integer