Marded vs Yarded - What's the difference?
marded | yarded |
(yard)
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building ().
*
, title= An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=2/2 (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
To confine to a yard.
* 1893 , Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft ().
A staff, rod or stick.
A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; ).
* , chapter=1
, title= (US, slang) One hundred dollars.
(obsolete) The penis.
*, II.12:
*:there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard , and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
As verbs the difference between marded and yarded
is that marded is (mard) while yarded is (yard).yarded
English
Verb
(head)yard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yard, .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard —peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard .}}
Derived terms
See also Yard * apple-yard * back yard, back-yard, backyard * barn-yard, barnyard * bone-yard, boneyard * brickyard * castle yard * chapel yard * churchyard * court-yard, courtyard * deer-yard, deeryard * dockyard * door-yard, dooryard * dung-yard * farm-yard, farmyard * fore-yard * front yard * graveyard * green-yard, greenyard * grip-yard * hemp-yard * hop-yard * inn-yard, innyard * junk-yard, junkyard * kailyard, kaleyard * kirkyard * knacker's yard * liberty of the yard * lumber-yard, lumberyard * marshaling yard, marshalling yard * mast-yard * navy yard, navy-yard * olive-yard * * palace yard * par-yard * poultry-yard * press-yard * rick-yard, rickyard * rope-yard * sale-yard, saleyard * schoolyard * scrapyard * shipyard * show-yard * stable-yard * stack-yard, stackyard * steelyard * stockyard * straw yard * switchyard * tan-yard, tanyard * tenter-yard * tilt-yard, tiltyard * timber-yard, timberyard * vinegar-yard * vineyard * wood-yard, woodyard * yardage * yard bird, yardbird * yard-boy * yard broom * yard-dike * yard-dog * yardful * yard grass, yard-grass * yardhove * yarding * yardland * yardman * yardmaster * yard-money * yardperson * yard sale * yardsman * yardswoman * yard work, yard-workVerb
(en verb)- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) yerd, , German Gerte.Noun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’