(transitive) To confine to a yard.

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).

(intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

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

You cannot fit a large object or amount in a smaller container.

Person or entity whose name one does not want to mention but which is known to the person to whom one is speaking.

A holiday in many countries to welcome the New Year of the Gregorian calendar on January 1.

A vow that one makes on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day for the coming year.

A period covering the first few days of a calendar year. / In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar (New Year’s Day) and the days following.

(astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (10¹⁶ metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.