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ylindrical, 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. Golden Yard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular name the three stars in the belt of Orion. -- Under yard [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.] Chauce…

Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.

As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.

A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate. [Obs.]

A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.

A yardstick. Tennyson.

A yard belonging to a barn.

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

joining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

A court or inclosure attached to a house.

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

A yard where dung is collected.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

The lowermost yard on the foremast.

A buffoon. See Gollard. [Obs.] Chaucer.