What is the name meaning of YARD. Phrases containing YARD
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YARD
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Descendent.
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Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese : from corte ‘court’ (Latin cohors ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’, genitive cohortis), applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.English : variant spelling of Court.Americanized spelling of Korte.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Hardy Tree; From the Yard of Tree Stumps
Girl/Female
Hebrew
From the river Jordan.
Boy/Male
English
From the cattle yard.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some kind, Middle English yard(e) (Old English geard; compare Garth).English : nickname from Middle English yard ‘rod’, ‘stick’ (Old English (Anglian) gerd), probably with reference to a rod or staff carried as a symbol of authority.English : from the same word as in 2, used to denote a measure of land. The surname probably denoted someone who held this quantity of land, and as it was quite a large amount (varying at different periods and in different places, but generally approximately 30 acres, a quarter of a hide), such a person would have been a reasonably prosperous farmer.
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English and French
English and French : topographic name from Middle English, Old French court(e), curt ‘court’ (Latin cohors, genitive cohortis, ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’). This word was used primarily with reference to the residence of the lord of a manor, and the surname is usually an occupational name for someone employed at a manorial court.English : nickname from Old French, Middle English curt ‘short’, ‘small’ (Latin curtus ‘curtailed’, ‘truncated’, ‘cut short’, ‘broken off’).Irish : reduced form of McCourt.
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English
English : habitational name from a lost place in Yardley, Birmingham, recorded in 1645 as Puggmyre Farm. This derives from the name of its 13th-century landlord, Robert Pugg, whose surname is of unknown etymology, + Middle English myre ‘mire’, ‘bog’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a vineyard, or a metonymic occupational name for a vine dresser, from Middle English vine ‘vine(yard)’ (Old French vi(g)ne). Vine growing was formerly more common in England than it is now, and there are several minor places in southern England named from their vineyard, any of which may be partial sources of the surname. See also Vineyard, Wingard.Spanish (Viñe) : variant of Viña (see Vina).
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English, French, German, Polish, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán)
English, French, German, Polish, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán) : from the Christian baptismal name Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Yardley.
Male
Hebrew
(יַרְדָן) Hebrew unisex name YARDEN means "flowing down." In the bible, this is the name of the river in Palestine. The English form is Jordan.
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English
English : variant spelling of Yard.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from Middle English orchard.English : habitational name from any of the places called Orchard. Those in Devon and Somerset are named from Old English ortgeard, orceard (a compound of wort, wyrt ‘plant’ (later associated with Latin hortus ‘garden’) + geard ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’), while East and West Orchard near Shaftesbury in Dorset have a different origin, ‘(place) beside the wood’, from Celtic ar + cēd.Scottish : English surname adopted as equivalent of Urquhart.
Boy/Male
British, English, French
Garden
Female
Hebrew
(×™Ö·×¨Ö°×“Ö¸× Ö¸×”) Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Yarden, YARDENA means "flowing down."Â
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in cloth or a tailor, from Middle High German, Middle Low German el(l)e ‘yardstick’, ‘length of the lower arm’.German : from a short form, Edilo, from any of various Germanic personal names composed with adal ‘noble family’.English : from the female personal name Ela, a reduced form of Elena and possibly also of Eleanor.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places, for example Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, etc., or Yarley in Somerset, named with Old English gerd, gyrd ‘pole’, ‘stick’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The compound apparently referred to a forest where timber could be gathered.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Enclosed Meadow
Female
Hebrew
(יַרְדָן) Hebrew unisex name YARDEN means "flowing down." In the bible, this is the name of a river in Palestine.
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Girl/Female
Tamil
Restless, Lighting
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Norman form of an Old French personal name composed of the Germanic elements wil ‘will’, ‘desire’ + helm ‘helmet’, ‘protection’. This was introduced into England at the time of the Conquest, and within a very short period it became the most popular personal name in England, mainly no doubt in honor of the Conqueror himself.
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English (Sussex)
English (Sussex) : topographic name for someone who lived by a holt, a small wood, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.North German (also Hölter) : habitational name from places called Holter or Hölter.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt).
Female
English
English abbreviated form of French Christine or Latin Christina, CHRISTIN means "believer" or "follower of Christ."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
The Biblical Lot is the English Language Equivalent; Name of a Prophet
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Tamil
Chndraja | சà¯à®¨à¯à®¤à¯à®°à®œà®¾Â
Daughter of the Moon
Boy/Male
Sikh
Eternal Lord
Male
Icelandic
Icelandic form of Old Norse Holmgeirr, HÓLMGEIR means "spear island."
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddesse
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Sindhi, Telugu
Like a Lotus
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v. t.
To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
n.
The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
pl.
of Yardful
n.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings.
n.
Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.
n.
A yard or place for tilting.
n.
A yardstick.
n.
A virgate; a yardland.
n.
As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.
n.
An ell; also, a yard.
v. t.
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
n.
A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.
n.
A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.
n.
An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
n.
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.
n.
A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
n.
A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.