Yarded

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have gathered or confined something within a designated area, particularly for the purposes of management or control
2. To have moved or transferred an object, often equipment, into a specific space or place
3. To have enclosed or restricted an item within a certain boundary, usually involving physical or metaphorical space

Etymology: Yard the enclosure came first, and the verb is a later extension of it. The noun descends from Old English "geard," meaning enclosure, garden or fence, and it shares its root with the German "Garten" and Dutch "gaard." Its root is an ancient idea of enclosing: Proto-Indo-European "gherdh-" meant "to enclose," which is also the source of the word "garden" and of "garth," a doublet with the same origin. The sense of measurement is a separate word. A different Old English noun, "gierd," meant a branch, rod or staff, and it was later used for a measuring stick. Over time that stick became a unit of length, and English speakers ended up with two unrelated words that look identical today. Once enclosure and measurement were both established as meanings, "yard" could be used as a verb for putting things inside a walled space, and "yarded" is the past form of that verb.