square yard

American  

noun

1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. yd 2 , sq. yd.

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Example Sentences

These sites shared north-south alignments centered on a ceremonial complex consisting of a square pyramid on the west and an elongated mound on the east.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2011

The now ruined grave of Belus was a square pyramid of burnt bricks.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

It is certainly very ancient in form, a kind of square pyramid about four inches wide and nine high, of beaten red copper mixed, we were told, with a considerable quantity of silver.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

As this number is the square of 70, we can lay out the balls in a square, and can form a square pyramid with them.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

A stick of timber is in the shape of the frustum of a square pyramid, the lower base being 22 in. square and the upper 14 in. square.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)