Wiktionary
a. Very long; about a meter long. alt. Very long; about a meter long.
Usage examples of "yard-long".
Spiders and bugs and praying mantises and yard-long centipedes, scuttling and crawling in an endless tide.
The man stood above him with a yard-long wooden stick capped with a metal point-for all the stars, a cattle prod!
But the leathery skin hung from them in rags, with yard-long rents from edge to bone.
It was a beautiful bauble, yes, yet it was the work of a master swordsmith, as well, a yard-long tongue of steel, as deadly as it was gorgeous, and sharp enough to slice the wind itself.
Meanwhile, the governor had heard some one drop upon the battlement outside from a turret, and the next instant a man sprang through the window, with a yard-long Zhaibar knife in his hand, and bade the governor make no sound.
Karl gripped the shoe with a yard-long pair of pincers and stuck it through the hole in the wall.
The steel hat of his profession was on his head, a yard-long pipefitter's wrench in his hand.