Yard vs. Enclosure — What's the Difference?

The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it is by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters.

'Enclosure' or 'Inclosure' is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their ancient rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a "formal" or "informal" process.

Abbr. yd. A fundamental unit of length in both the US Customary System and the British Imperial System, equal to 3 feet, or 36 inches (0.9144 meter). See Table at measurement.

The act of enclosing.

(Nautical) A long tapering spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.

The state of being enclosed.

A square yard

Something enclosed

A cubic yard

Something that encloses.

A tract of ground next to, surrounding, or surrounded by a building or buildings.

(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

A tract of ground, often enclosed, used for a specific business or activity.

(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

A baseball park.

(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

An area where railroad trains are made up and cars are switched, stored, and serviced on tracks and sidings.

(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

A somewhat sheltered area where deer or other browsing animals congregate during the winter.

The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.

An enclosed tract of ground in which animals, such as chickens or pigs, are kept.

The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

To enclose, collect, or put into a yard.

(religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

To gather together into a yard

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

Artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose

The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

The act of enclosing something inside something else

An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

A naturally enclosed space

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter

One’s house or home.

A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

A penis.

100 dollars.

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 2 feet.

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 4 acre.

(finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

(transitive) To confine to a yard.

To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

A rod; a stick; a staff.

A branch; a twig.

A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

The penis.

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.

A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.

An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

The enclosed land around a house or other building;

A tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings);

An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

An enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

A unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100