yard vs top-gallant yard

top-gallant yard vs yard

yard and top-gallant yard both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yard	Yes	No	No	No
top-gallant yard	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, top-gallant yard is a hyponym of yard; that is, top-gallant yard is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than yard:

yard: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
top-gallant yard: a yard on which a topgallant sail is carried, above the topsail or topsails.

Other hyponyms of yard include main yard, fore-yard, foreyard, topgallant yard, royal yard.

yard (noun)	top-gallant yard (noun)
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)	a yard on which a topgallant sail is carried, above the topsail or topsails.
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
the enclosed land around a house or other building
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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