The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries. garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden, G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[eth]r yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house, garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure. Cf. Court, Garden, Garth, Horticulture, Orchard.]
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An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which she had a cock, hight chanticleer.
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An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
Liberty of the yard, a liberty, granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not to go beyond those limits.
Prison yard, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it.
Yard grass (Bot.), a low-growing grass ( Eleusine Indica) having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and like places, especially in the Southern United States. Called also crab grass.
Yard of land. See Yardland.
WordNet
n. grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns [syn: crabgrass, finger grass]
Wikipedia
- redirect Digitaria
Usage examples of "crab grass".
One day the crab grass suits will fall off and their true identity will be revealed.
By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late.
The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.
Later, when my personal life became complicated and full of unfortunate convolutions, worries about crab grass got lost somewhere.
I used to dig in the garden, and there is nothing fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass.
The patchy lawn had gone to crab grass, there were weeds in the flower beds, the windows were bare with some of the panes broken.
Chasing a little white blur around the crab grass drives me crazy.
Oh Lord, send this white soul to a heaven where there is no crab grass and the niggers always keep their distance.
Very little seemed to grow on it: only an occasional bit of low, starved shrubbery, a patch of tough, nettlelike stalks, a few clinging weeds like crab grass.
I replaced the receiver and rocked back, trying to sort out the profusion of problems that had popped up like crab grass in the last week.