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yard
A	noun
	1	yard
			an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚enclosure ╚yard ╚stockyard ╚farmyard ╚chicken yard; hen yard; chicken run; fowl run ╚barnyard
	2	yard
			a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚instrumentality; instrumentation ╚implement ╚rod ╚pole ╚spar ╚yard ╚main yard
	3	yard, grounds, curtilage
			the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚region ╚geographical area; geographic area; geographical region; geographic region ╚tract; piece of land; piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel ╚field ╚yard, grounds, curtilage ╚side yard ╚playground ╚garden ╚front yard ╚dooryard ╚court; courtyard ╚backyard
	4	yard, railway yard
			an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚region ╚geographical area; geographic area; geographical region; geographic region ╚tract; piece of land; piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel ╚yard, railway yard ╚marshalling yard
	5	yard
			a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚region ╚geographical area; geographic area; geographical region; geographic region ╚tract; piece of land; piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel ╚yard ╚tiltyard ╚churchyard; God's acre ╚schoolyard ╚junkyard
	6	cubic yard, yard
			a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚definite quantity ╚unit of measurement; unit ╚volume unit; capacity unit; capacity measure; cubage unit; cubic measure; cubic content unit; displacement unit; cubature unit ╚cubic yard, yard
	7	yard, pace
			a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚linear measure; long measure ╚linear unit ╚yard, pace
	8	thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard
			the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚definite quantity ╚number ╚integer; whole number ╚large integer ╚thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard

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