yard
/ˈjɑɹd/ noun A1- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- One’s house or home.
Plural yards
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.
Matthew opened the yard gate for them and as they drove slowly through, he said, to nobody in particular as it seemed:
Dantès continued at his post in spite of the presence of the pilot, until this manœuvre was completed, and then he added, “Half-mast the colors, and square the yards!”
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
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