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Yardmasters
- noun - a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard
Yastrzemski
- noun - United States baseball player (born in 1939)
Yawl-Rigged
- - Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
Yazoo Fraud
- - The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provision was incorporated in the State constitution in 1798. In 1802 the territory was ceded to the United States. The claims of the purchasers, whom Georgia had refused to compensate, were sustained by the United States Supreme Court, which (1810) declared the repealing act of 1796 unconstitutional. Congress in 1814 ordered the lands sold and appropriated $5,000,000 to pay the claims.
Yazoo River
- noun - a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
Year-Around
- adjective - operating or continuing throughout the year; "a year-round resort"; "a year-round job"
Yearned-For
- adjective - greatly desired
Yellow Bass
- noun - North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass
Yellow Bean
- noun - snap beans with yellow pods
Yellow Bile
- noun - a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger