The noun yard has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (765) yard, pace -- (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride)
2. (171) yard, grounds, curtilage -- (the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard")
3. (26) yard -- (a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town")
4. (9) yard, railway yard -- (an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines)
5. (5) yard -- (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock))
6. (2) cubic yard, yard -- (a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel))
7. (1) yard -- (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen)
8. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard -- (the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100)
9. yard -- (a tract of land where logs are accumulated)