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System of tracks for making up trains or storing cars. (Boomer's version: "System of rust surrounded y fence and inhabited by a dumb bunch of natives who will not let a train in or out.") Also called garden and ield. Yard geese are yard switchmen. Y.M. is yardmaster. Yard goat is switching engine
Yard is slang for the penis.Yard is American slang for one thousand.Yard is American slang for one hundred dollars.Yard is Jamaican slang for Jamaica.
Derisive term for boomers, all of whom presumably claimed to have held, at some time, the tough job of night yardmaster at Pocatello, Idaho
Yard on is Black American slang for to be unfaithful.
Yardman is Jamaican slang for a Jamaican.
This was a cemetery, especially for those who died with their boots on; also called boothill, bone yard, bone orchard, grave patch.
Yardy (yardie) is a Jamaican slang expression for someone (Jamaican or foreign) who knows their way around the island, and especially the ghetto.
TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
Yardbird is American slang for a military recruit.Yardbird is American slang for someone assigned menial outdoor duties.Yardbird is American slang for a convict.Yardbirdis American slang for a vagrant who frequents railway yards.
– Not just convenient framework to hang the sails, but often times used as a holding post for the disobedient ol’ salts, as in, “Tie that dawg to the Yardarmâ€.
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Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.
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To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings.
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An ell; also, a yard.
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A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
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A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.
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To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
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A yard or place for tilting.
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of Yardful
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Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
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To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
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A virgate; a yardland.
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A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
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A yardstick.
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The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
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A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
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A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.
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A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
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An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
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As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.
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