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1. A land lot used for some specific purpose, e.g. churchyard?, dockyard, railyard?. The word is related to guard, garden, Scandinavian "gård" (homestead), Russian "gorod" (city).

2. A non-metric unit for length, approximately 0.90 meters or 3 feet.

3. Scotland Yard, a branch of the police force in the United Kingdom.


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