Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) to marry.

1908

E.S. Sorenson Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 92: If old Noel ’ad run straight for another day, he’d have got it for a dead certainty’ an’ who can say, with that in his fist, he wouldn’t ’ave yarded the widder?

2. to round up, to catch; to imprison.

1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 4 May 1/3: [A]bout a score of pak-a-puites were yarded into the Central fold.
c.1905		J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. x: 🌐 You ought to be yarded, without water or tucker, till you learn to speak English again.
1915		Drew & Evans Grafter (1922) 4: ‘Stop him. I’ll give a fiver to the hospital if they yard him’.
1921		(con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 7: Every man who has been yarded up has been promoted to military policeman to help land the rest back onto the transport.
1933		C. Drew ‘Gorilla Grogan’ in Bulletin (Sydney) 26 July 41/1: [W]hen the coppers yarded him I came to light with his fine.
1949		I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 10: He’d put up in his last Wet up river at the Crossing and they’d ‘yarded’ him there all right — on the end of a chain padlocked to a log.