yards

1. a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).

   a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth

2. a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from.
3. 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill.

   it cost two hundred up front—one yard for Maurice, one for the girl

Old English gerd (in yard¹ (sense 2)), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’ and German Gerte .

1. a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings.

   tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard

2. an area of land used for a particular purpose or business.

   a builder's yard

3. a house and the land attached.
4. (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica.

   life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday

1. store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.

   he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs

   Canadian operators never practised yarding on a wider scale

2. put (farm animals) into an enclosure.

   sheep should be yarded even in the spring

3. (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter.

   they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together

Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.