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Yard vs Verge - What's the difference?

yard | verge |

In obsolete terms the difference between yard and verge

is that yard is the penis while verge is the phallus.

As nouns the difference between yard and verge

is that yard is a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia) while verge is a rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

As verbs the difference between yard and verge

is that yard is to confine to a yard while verge is to be or come very close; to border; to approach.

As a proper noun Yard

is Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard

yard

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) yard, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building ().
  • *
    • , title= 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.}}
  • An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=2/2 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 .}}
  • (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
    • 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-work

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confine to a yard.
  • * 1893 , Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
    • 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)
  • (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.
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; ).
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= 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’
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * all wool and a yard wide * by the yard * clay yard * cloth yard, cloth-yard * cubic yard * fore-yard, foreyard * golden yard * jackyard * main yard, main-yard * mast-yard * meteyard * mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard * royal yardman * sailyard * six-yard box * square yard * steelyard * under the yard * upper yardman * yardage * yard-arm, yardarm * yard-coal * yarded * yardel * yard-fell * yard goods * yardland * yard-long * yard-measure * yard of ale * yard of clay * yard of land * yard of lime * yard of mortar * yard of satin * yard of stone * yard of tin * yard-rope * yard-seam * yard-stick, yardstick * yard-wand, yardwand * whole nine yards

    Etymology 3

    Corruption of (etyl) milliard.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) 109, A thousand millions or milliard.
    • I need to hedge a yard of yen.

    Anagrams

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    verge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as (etyl) dedeinz la verge ), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  • # The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge .
  • An edge or border.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theoryimplies an absurdity.
  • *(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
  • *:But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • # The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
  • #(lb) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
  • #:
  • (lb) The phallus.
  • #(lb) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
  • An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  • A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
  • (lb) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  • :
  • (lb) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  • :
  • (lb) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

    • Synonyms

    * (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.

    Verb

    (verg)
  • To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
    • Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

    References

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