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yds.

American  

abbreviation

  1. yards.


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Each will weigh 330 lbs., stand 4 ft. high and cover 100 yds. in a day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mills gives me a cue to flick the two joysticks that make my deer's head swivel and her tail twitch from 50 yds. away.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had got to within 40 yds. of his men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dennis Dougherty, GM's man in charge of manufacturing, is watching the process apprehensively from 50 yds. away.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ground for match play measures 35 yds. by 28 yds., and should be carefully marked out with white lines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various