yarding

Verb (1)

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
   • As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead

Verb (2)

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

1. (humorous, intransitive) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
   • He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 62

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