Yard (disambiguation)

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Yard may mean:

• Yard, a unit of length (3 feet)
• Megalithic yard, a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement
• Yard (land), an enclosed area, usually attached to a building, sometimes a garden (often less formal), or a sports field, or an enclosed space used for various things, such as a builder's yard or a wrecking yard, and is often used in combining form as in Knacker's yard, junkyard and Lumber yard.
• "Yard" may refer to the exercise yard used for inmate activities at many prisons.
• Yard (beer), an extremely long beer glass.
• Yard, house or dwelling, as in "come back to my yard for some food" .
• In American slang, a "yard" is finance slang for a billion (Derived from the French 'Milliard').
• Yard (sailing), a spar on a traditional sailing ship.
• "The Yard" is a common slang name of Scotland Yard, headquarters for London's Metropolitan Police Service.
• Yards Brewing Company is a brewery in Philadelphia.
• A Railroad yard is where railroad trains are made up and broken down.
• Skin Yard, an American grunge band from Seattle
• Molly Yard (1912-2005), American feminist