Yardwand: Definition and part of speech

Yardwand

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum.

a. The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; — said with reference to a ship.

v. t. To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
v. i. A rod; a stick; a staff.
v. i. A branch; a twig.
v. i. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
v. i. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
v. i. The penis.
v. i. A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
n. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
n. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

n. Either half of a square-rigged vessel’s yard, from the center or mast to the end.

a. Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
n. A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.