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yds.

American  

abbreviation

  1. yards.


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Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little bit" lazy in not telling Waddle that a ship appeared to be just 4,000 yds. away.

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Some dredges have a capacity under favourable conditions of over 2000 cub. yds. of gravel daily.

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