(intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard / (Jamaica) Jamaica / (figuratively, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service

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).

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

(Canadian football) A penalty in which the kicking team, on either a kickoff or punt, fails to give the receiver on the receiving team a 5-yard restraining area to catch the ball.

Merchandise, especially fabric, sold in units of linear measure.

Alternative form of yardbird

A complex of branching railway lines and other infrastructure in which locomotives and rolling stock are stored and rearranged.

wreck yard.