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A yard will typically consist mostly of lawn [6] or play area. The yard in front of a house is referred to as a front yard, the area at the rear is known as a backyard. Backyards are generally more private and are thus a more common location for recreation. Yard size varies with population density.
The word ‘yard’ is a homonym of ‘yard’ in the sense of an enclosed area of land. This second meaning of ‘yard’ has an etymology related to the word ‘garden’ and is not related to the unit of measurement. [10] [11] In India Yard is colloquially known as Gauge or Guz. 1 Gauge is 3 feet.
Shamsud Din Jabbar was a US-born military veteran who went from success to a squalid Houston trailer park where sheep roamed his yard. He served in the Army for more than a decade and deployed to ...
The words yard, court, and Latin hortus (meaning "garden", hence horticulture and orchard), are cognates—all referring to an enclosed space. [7] The term "garden" in British English refers to a small enclosed area of land, usually adjoining a building. [8] This would be referred to as a yard in American English. [9]
The measurement of land in Punjab, India is an important aspect of agriculture and land management in the region.Punjab has a unique system of measuring land, typically done in units of bigha and acre.
On a residential area, a front yard (United States, Canada, Australia) or front garden (United Kingdom, Europe) is the portion of land between the street and the front of the house. [1] If it is covered in grass, it may be referred to as a front lawn. The area behind the house, usually more private, is the back yard or back garden.
Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli (Urdu: وزیرستان حویلی, romanized: Wazīristān Havelī, lit. 'Waziristan Mansion'), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for Saudi militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by U.S. forces on 2 May 2011.
(slang) exhausted, broken; the term may derive from either of two meanings of the noun knacker (see knacker's yard and knackers below), thus to slaughter or castrate [104] knacker's yard premises where superannuated livestock are sent for rendering, etc. by a knacker. Sometimes refers to the same for vehicles, a scrapyard (US: junkyard) knackers