stockyard
Americannoun
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an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
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a yard for livestock.
noun
Etymology
Origin of stockyard
Example Sentences
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The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022
Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2019
When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2015
Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015
To the intense irritation of Cornwall’s broker, they wound up having to accept rail cars filled with ethanol in some stockyard in Chicago—to make a sum of money that struck the broker as absurdly small.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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