yard measure

1. 1.

   a ruler or tape that is three feet long

   Synonymsyardstick

   Broaderrule

Questions about yard measure

What does yard measure mean?

yard measure means "a ruler or tape that is three feet long".

What is another word for yard measure?

Close synonyms include yardstick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yard measure a common word?

yard measure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.