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Yard vs Yaird - What's the difference?

yard | yaird |

As nouns the difference between yard and yaird

is that yard is a small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia) while yaird is obsolete form of yard.

As a verb yard

is to confine to a yard.

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , 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

    * * ----

    yaird

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland)
  • * 1842 , The Woodrow Society, Row’s History of the Kirk of Scotland , Edinburgh Printing Company, page 434:
    • On Tuesday, by the first break of day, he went over the street to his yaird' barefooted and bareheaded, (as David did when he went up Mount Olivet, fleeing out of Jerusalem from his son Absolom,) he locked the ' yaird doore behinde him, haveing charged them that were in the house with Helen Gardener, the baillie’s wife, to attend her, sitting quyet besyde hir.
  • * 1870 , Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality , A. & C. Black, page 425:
    • and in this equipage, with his little phizie (fusee) upon his shoulder, he marches to the church yaird , where the May-pole was sett up, and the solemnitie of that day was to be kept.
  • * 1998 , Leah Leneman, Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830 , Edinburgh University Press, page 30:
    • A witness, Thomas Storie, said that Dalmahoy, with ‘a young woman Iron coloured of a high stature [i.e. tall] in common habit’, called at a neighbour’s house and asked for a drink of ale and enquired ‘if there was a yaird' or any place for him and her to walk in’, and that they went to the ' yaird in question where Storie saw him ‘kissing and Imbraceing the said woman’.
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