Yard (disambiguation)

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A yard is an imperial/US customary (non-metric) unit of length (3 feet).

Yard may also refer to:

• Square yard, an imperial/US customary (non-metric) unit of area (9 square feet)
• Cubic yard, an imperial/US customary (non-metric) unit of volume (27 cubic feet)
• Megalithic yard, a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement
• Yard glass, an extremely long beer glass
• Yard (land), an open or enclosed land area, traditionally adjacent to one or more buildings
  • Backyard, the property behind a house, often fenced
  • Barnyard, near a farm's barn
  • Churchyard, near a church
  • Courtyard, surrounded by walls
  • Front yard, the property in front of a house
  • Graveyard, cemetery or burial ground
  • Stableyard, near a stable for horses
  • Wrecking yard, also known as a scrapyard or junkyard
• Yard (Portland, Oregon), an apartment building
• Yard (sailing), a spar on a traditional sailing ship
• YARD (software), a documentation generator for the Ruby programming language
• Yards Brewing Company, a brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Yard, used in British, South African, Forex, and money markets as slang for a thousand million units (short-scale billion, formerly milliard)
  • Milliard, the number 1,000,000,000 (10⁹)
• Scotland Yard or "The Yard," headquarters for London's Metropolitan Police Service
• Yardbird, slang term and the name of a band The Yardbirds
• Yardie, a Jamaican slang term
• Brickyard, a place where bricks are made or stored
• Prison yard, a walled or fenced, often open-air space in a jail or prison
• Rail yard, complex of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives
• Skin Yard, an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• The Yard (2011 TV series)

People

• Douglas Yard, appointed a judge of the Family Division of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba on October 7, 1998
• Ernie Yard (1941–2004), Scottish association footballer
• Molly Yard (1912–2005), American feminist of the late 20th century
• Robert Sterling Yard (1861–1945), American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist

Places

• Yard, Texas
• The Yard (Hot Springs, Virginia)
• Yards, Virginia and West Virginia
• The Yard (Howard University), Washington, D.C.
• The Yards (Washington, D.C.)

See also

• The Quad (TV series), initially titled The Yard
• Shipyard (disambiguation)
• Stockyard (disambiguation)
• The Longest Yard (disambiguation)