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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

To encourage him to explore, his trainers built a large slingshot, which sent fish out 50 yds. in all directions.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the bridge the replacement captain, Tony Cortese, waved to his predecessor, barely 200 yds. away.

From Time Magazine Archive

How could we have flown the entire family 6,000 miles from Denver to meet a woman who was afraid to walk 20 yds. across the street to meet us?

From Time Magazine Archive

These occur in a strip of comparatively fine gravel and sand, 150 yds. wide, extending along the shore.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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