yard (n.)

1.a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings"the house was built around an inner court"

2.an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

3.a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

4.the enclosed land around a house or other building"it was a small house with almost no yard"

5.an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

6.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"

7.a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

8.a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

9.the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100