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Feet and yards is London Cockney rhyming slang for playing cards.
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TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
Phrs. The complete amount. Less common variation on 'the whole nine yards'. Much speculation as to its origins but essentially unknown. [Orig. U.S.]
Montagnard soldiers. Pg. 523
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n.
A yardstick.
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The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.
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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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Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.
v. i.
To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
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One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.
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To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
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To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
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A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
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A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
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Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.
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A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.
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A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
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Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
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At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
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A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
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A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
v. t.
The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
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A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
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