I'm from New England. Here we use the expression to yard on something meaning to pull hard on it. For instance, you might hear She's stuck up in that tree. If you want to get her down, you're going to have to yard on her tail until she comes loose. I was curious where this sense of the word came from, but I can't so much as find a dictionary that has this definition. Most don't have yard as a verb, and of the ones that do, it is defined in a way I am not familiar with ("To enclose, collect, o...
