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  1. yardsnoun

    The totality of the sailing rig.

    Her yards were bare and cockabill.

Wikipedia

  1. yards

    The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile. The US survey yard is very slightly longer.

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  1. Yards

    Yards is an unincorporated community straddling the border between Tazewell County, Virginia and Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Yards is located on the Bluestone River, 4 miles northwest of Bluefield, Virginia. Yards had a post office on the Virginia side of the border from 1888 until May 28, 1994. The community was named for its railroad yards.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. yards

    See DOCKYARDS.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'yards' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2810

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'yards' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2868

Anagrams for yards »

  1. drays

  2. Dryas

  3. dryas

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of yards in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of yards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of yards in a Sentence

  1. Steve Tyler:

    Around here, the horizon is about 100 yards away and youre looking at a tall oak tree.

  2. Lianghui Xia:

    Some yards might have to drop their prices by 5-10 percent in order to attract potential buyers in the current market climate.

  3. Angie Thompson:

    Cars, yards … It’s affected every single person over here, it’s just really horrible to watch people’s lives just wash down the river.

  4. Margaret Kudzma:

    My desperation to find him led to an unimaginable journey. I met dozens of people, who out of the goodness of their hearts, spend countless hours rescuing and caring for stray and feral cats, they helped me hand out flyers, hang posters, and search neighbors‘ yards. We set up feeding stations and night vision cameras in areas where sightings were reported.

  5. Randy Dawson:

    I saw ... the fire start down the road from us about 200 yards and race up the hill and right by our house.

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