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say it: YAHR-dur
yarder is a noun meaning "(used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards". It is pronounced /ˈjɑɹdɚ/ — YAHR-dur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards
“the golfer hit a 300-yarder to the green”
combining form
a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yarder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.