yardyardyardsyardedyardingnoun1an area next to a building, usually with a fence or wall around it: The children were playing in the school yard.a farmyard2 American English for garden3(abbr.yd) a measure of length (= 91 centimetres). There are three feet in a yard.Look at the note at foot.
# noun. - a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 meter). * a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth - a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from.