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yard

noun
  1. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
  2. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
  3. the enclosed land around a house or other building
    “it was a small house with almost no yard”
    groundscurtilage
  4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
    railway yardrailyard
  5. 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”
  6. a tract of land where logs are accumulated
  7. a unit of volume, as for sand or gravel
    “We'll need 1000 yards to finish this project.”
    cubic yard
  8. a unit of length equal to 3 feet
    pace
  9. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
    grand