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单词 yardage
释义 yard·age
I. \-dij, -dēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: yard (II) + -age
1. : the use of a livestock enclosure for animals in transit provided by a railroad at a station
2. : a charge made by a railroad for the use of a livestock enclosure
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: yard (I) + -age
1. : the linear yards of advance made or cubic yards mined used as a basis for determining wages of coal miners
2.
 a. : an aggregate number of yards
  < a large yardage of work-shirt chambrays — John Hoye >
  < the par and yardage of each of the ten golf courses — New York Herald Tribune >
 b. : an amount expressed in yards: as
  (1) : an extent (as of cloth) measured in linear yards
   < the dress floats out to an extravagant drift of yardage at the hem — New York Times >
  (2) : a distance covered in linear yards
   < running plays that piled up yardageTime >
  (3) : an area covered in square yards
   < increase plaster yardage by sizing dry walls >
  (4) : a volume of materials in cubic yards
   < every great dam requires the moving of immense yardageNewsweek >
3. : yard goods
 < they've been buying satin yardage … for a month now — Ray Bradbury >
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