yard (2) — ONAD

yard2 /yärd, jɑrd

▸ noun North American a piece of ground adjoining a building or house.

▪ an area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings.

▪ an area of land used for a particular purpose or business:

a storage yard.

▪ an area where deer or moose gather as a herd for the winter.

▸ verb

1 North American [with object] store or transport (timber) in or to a log yard:

he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs

(as noun yarding) Canadian operators never practiced yarding on a wider scale.

2 [no object] North American (of deer or moose) gather as a herd for the winter:

they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together.

– ORIGIN Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.