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yard2 n.

1. the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, etc. 2. a

courtyard. 3. an outdoor enclosure for exercise, as by students or inmates. 4. an outdoor

space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus. 5. an enclosure for livestock. 6. an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): a lumberyard. 7. an outside area used for storage, assembly, etc. 8. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc. where rail cars are made up into trains and where rolling stock is kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs. 9. the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer. — v.t. 10. to put into, enclose or store in a yard.

[bef. 900: ME yerd, OE geard enclosure, c. OS gard, OHG gart, ON garthr, Go gards;

akin to L hortus garden, OIr gort sowed field; cf. garden]

Source: Random House Webster’s College Dictionary ([1991] 1995, p. 1544)

If I’m a man,

then I must have a farm;

and if I have a farm,

then I must have a wife;

and if I have a wife,

then I must have a child;

and if I have a child,

then I must have a maid;

fragments: Anonymous

Woof – it’s Japhta’s soft bark,

he’s startled out of his slumber,

for there at the wall the gate

made its little squeaking sound

and slowly across the yard

a wanderer walks up the path.

Jan FE Celliers

She tells the winds of the dance

and invites them to come, for the yard is wide and the wedding grand.

Eugène Marais

the whole yard is filled with him:

there where the ploughs glimmer,

I see the ox-great shadow stir

and hear some iron thing murmur.

NP van Wyk Louw