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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).

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yard

IPA(Pronunciation)

/jɑːd/

Noun

obsolete US slang uncommon

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).

Japanese Meaning

ヤード：長さの単位で、3フィート、約0.9144メートルに相当する（USおよびUKの慣用単位系に基づく）

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She asked the tailor to cut a yard of fabric for the hem.

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彼女は裾のために布を1ヤード（約0.9144メートル）切るよう仕立て屋に頼んだ。

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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).

Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” 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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Sense（2）

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

Sense（3）

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

Sense（4）

(nautical) 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.

Sense（5）

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

Sense（6）

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

Sense（7）

(obsolete, medicine) A penis.

there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].

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Sense（8）

(US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.

Sense（9）

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

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Sense（10）

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

Sense（11）

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

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yard

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