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Yard

 
Wikipedia: Yard (disambiguation)

Yard may mean:

  • Yard, an imperial/US customary (non-metric) unit of length (3 feet)
  • 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 (beer), an extremely long beer glass
  • Yard (land), an enclosed area, usually attached to a 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
  • Classification yard, an area where railroad trains are made up and broken down
  • 'Yard, sometimes used in British and South African financial markets for a thousand million (short-scale billion, formerly "milliard")
  • Scotland Yard or "The Yard", headquarters for London's Metropolitan Police Service
  • Skin Yard, an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington

People:

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

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