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  • noun Plural form of yarder.

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Examples

  • That pin looks huge at that distance bu i've found that the 30-35 yarders feel like chip shots then.

    Ethical bow-range 2009

  • That pin looks huge at that distance bu i've found that the 30-35 yarders feel like chip shots then.

    Ethical bow-range 2009

  • Gano kicked field goals at practice Wednesday morning and was 11-of-13, missing a couple of 50-plus yarders.

    Danny Smith: Graham Gano "a great young prospect" 2010

  • Longshore completed his first nine passes and got the Bears back in the game with three touchdown passes in the first half, 19 yarders to tight ends Morrah and Craig Stevens plus a 14-yard lob to James Montgomery.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - California vs. Washington 2006

  • Hearst scored on a five-yard run and a pair of one-yarders.

    NFL - National Football League - Seattle vs. San Francisco 2002

  • There are great four-masted barques and full-rigged ships lying at the wharfs and outside -- double t'gallant yarders, my boy; I yelled at them by way of greeting down across the tree-tops.

    With Rimington L. March Phillipps

  • If intended as a true picture of the normal state of a small Scottish provincial town and its society, it may have been as false in its own direction as the kail-yarders had been in theirs.

    Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

  • "I'm ashamed to look the Atlantic Ocean in the face, with that bunch of barn-yarders aboard," he complained.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • Occasionally the patents, which have been long out of use, went wrong, and the sail could neither be got up nor down, but this never happens when proper care is used with the double topsail yarders.

    The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

  • Scottish provincial town and its society, it may have been as false in its own direction as the kail-yarders had been in theirs.

    English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

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