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I still see wrappers from McDonalds and Burger King just tossed out the window like my yard is their garbage pail.

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  1. noun A fundamental unit of length in both the U.S. Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter). See Table at measurement.
  2. noun Nautical A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.
  3. noun A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.
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  1. Middle English yerde, stick, unit of measure, from Old English gerd.
  2. Middle English, from Old English geard; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also yeard; from Middle English yerd, ʒerd, from Anglo-Saxon gyrd, gird, gierd, a rod, = Old Saxon gerda = Dutch garde, a rod, twig, = Old High German gartja, gerta, Middle High German G. gerte, a rod, switch; from the more primitive noun, Old High German Middle High German gart, a rod, yard, = Gothic (Moesogothic) gazds, a goad, = Icelandic gaddr = Anglo-Saxon gād, English goad (the Anglo-Saxon gād, if = Gothic (Moesogothic) gazds, involves an irregular contraction, and may be a different word); cf. Latin hasta, a spear: see goad, gad, and hastate.
  2. from yard, n.: with reference to the yards or staves of office carried by the coroner.
  3. Also dial. (Scots) yaird; from Middle English yerd, ʒerd, from Anglo-Saxon geard, an inclosure, court, yard, = Dutch gaard, a garden, = Old High German gart, a circle, ring, = Icelandic gardhr, an inclosure, yard (later English garth), = Danish gaard, a yard, court, farm, = Norwegian gaard, a yard, farm, = Swedish gård, a yard; also in a weak form, Old Saxon gardo = OFries. garda = Old High German garto, Middle High German garte, German garten, garden, = Gothic (Moesogothic) garda, inclosure, stall, = Latin hortus, a garden, = Greek χόρτος, a yard, court, = Russian gorodŭ, a town (as in Novgorod, etc.); orig. ‘an inclosure,’ from the verb represented by gird: see gird. Cf. cohort, court. The word exists disguised in orchard. From the G. or Low German forms, through Old French, comes also English garden, and, from the Scandinavian, English garth.
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