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Yard on is Black American slang for to be unfaithful.
– 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€.
TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
Yardy (yardie) is a Jamaican slang expression for someone (Jamaican or foreign) who knows their way around the island, and especially the ghetto.
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.
TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
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 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.
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
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.
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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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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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To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
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A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.
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As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.
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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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The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
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An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
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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 pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
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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 yard or place for tilting.
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A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.
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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 virgate; a yardland.
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An ell; also, a yard.
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of Yardful
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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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A yardstick.
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