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- The term "yard" derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods12. It was first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, where the "yard of land" mentioned is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1⁄4 hide1. In the 12th century, King Henry I of England fixed the yard as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his out-stretched arm3. Today, a yard is 36 inches3.Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.
The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. It is first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, where the "yard of land" mentioned is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1⁄4 hide.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YardThe word "yard" came from the Anglo-Saxon geard, compare "jardin" (French) which has a Germanic origin (compare Franconian word "gardo"), "garden" (Anglo-Norman Gardin, German Garten) and Old Norse garðr, Latin hortus = "garden" (hence horticulture and orchard), from [citation needed] Greek χορτος (chortos) = "farm-yard", "feeding-place", "fodder", (from which "hay" originally as grown in an enclosed field). "Girdle," and...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(land)Yard: A yard was originally the length of a man's belt or girdle, as it was called. In the 12th century, King Henry I of England fixed the yard as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his out-stretched arm. Today it is 36 inches.www.factmonster.com/math-science/weights-meas… - See moreSee all on Wikipedia
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Origin The origin of the yard measure is uncertain. Both the Romans and the Welsh used multiples of a shorter foot, but 2+1⁄2 Roman feet was a "step" (Latin: gradus) and 3 Welsh feet was a "pace" (Welsh: cam). The Proto-Germanic cubit or arm's-length has been reconstructed as *alinô, which developed into … See more
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 See more
The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. It is first attested in the late 7th century laws See more
The yard is used as the standard unit of field-length measurement in American, Canadian and association football, cricket pitch dimensions, and in some countries, See more
For purposes of measuring cloth, the early yard was divided by the binary method into two, four, eight and sixteen parts. The two most common divisions were the fourth and sixteenth parts. The quarter of a yard (9 inches) was known as the "quarter" without further … See more
• international yard (defined 1959):
1250 (international) yards = 1143 meters 1 (international) yard = 0.9144 meters (exact) 1 (international) statute mile = 8 international furlongs = 80 international chains = 1760 (international) yards See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Origins of Measurements - Fact Monster
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The introduction of the yard (0.9144 m) as a unit of length came later, but its origin is not definitely known. Some believe the origin was the double cubit, others believe that it originated from cubic measure.
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