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yard englanniksi
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
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An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
{{quote-book|en|year=1931|author=Palmer (author)|Francis Beeding
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A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
One’s house or home.
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To confine to a yard.
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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).
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients).” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
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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.
A penis.
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes).
1774, (w), ''The Journals'', Second Voyage, 23 July:
- The testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.
100 dollars.
The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
{{quote-text|en|year=a. 1634|author=W. Noye|title=The Complete Lawyer|section=57
The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) (frac) feet.
To move a yard at a time, as opposed to ''inching'' along.
109, A and short scales|short scale billion; a and short scales|long scale thousand millions or milliard.
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