A Yard

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
   1. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent 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.
4. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
5. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
6. (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
7. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
8. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
9. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16¹⁄₂ feet.
10. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

Synonyms

• (arm length): ell
• ($100): hundred
• (surveying measure): rod
• (large unit of area): virgate
• (small unit of area): rood