yard
/ˈjɑɹd/ verb C2- To confine to a yard.
He/she/it yards · Past yarded · Past participle yarded · -ing form yarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- yard
- He/she/it
- yards
- Past
- yarded
- Past participle
- yarded
- -ing form
- yarding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch’s castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.
The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
Matthew opened the yard gate for them and as they drove slowly through, he said, to nobody in particular as it seemed:
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
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