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a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town" an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) cubic yard: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen thousand: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 a tract of land where logs are accumulated
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lowland area with dense coniferous cover in areas.
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3 linear ft. or 0.9144 m; a square yard is 9 sq. ft. or 0.8361 sq. m.
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A marshalling, stabling, works or transhipment area served by a complex of sidings. If possible, use a more precise term from the <complexes> heading. Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group Plural form: yards
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A part of the surface used for mine tracks or storage of material.
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