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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• yard:
    1. I. A court:
      1. 1. ārea: a y. before a house, area domus, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 4.
      2. 2. cohors, tis, f.: (written also cors and chors in this sense): the y. in which the fowls stray about, cohors per quam vagantur gallinae, Col. 8, 3: the fowls of the y., cortis aves, Mart. 13, 45, 2.
    2. II. A measure: *ulna: approximately, where great exactness is not needed: with a gown six y.s long, cum bis ter ulnarum toga, Hor. Epod. 4, 8. Phr.: a shield a y. long, parma tripedalis, Liv. 38, 21.
    3. III. A sail-yard: antenna: the ropes which bound the y.s to the masts, funes qui antennas ad malos destinabant, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: the tips of the sail-clad y.s, cornua velatarum antennarum, Virg. Aen. 3, 549.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• YARD
  • A court, area: chors (for cattle; Vid: COURT).
  • A measure of three feet, duo cubitus (a cubitus being a foot and a half: ☞ the Roman gradus is less than a yard, about 2½ feet; ulna is much more than a yard). A yard long, tripedalis (of three Roman feet).
  • The support of a sail, antenna (Caes.), or antennae, plur., (Ov., Hirt.): ☞ cornua = the extremities of the yard.