goods yard

noun

, British.

1. a railway freight yard.

Word History and Origins

Origin of goods yard¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

We pass a railway goods yard where plundered flour is being carried away in sacks.

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Most of them, when before the Committee, find excuses, like the boy who was caught with others stealing in a railway goods yard.

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But they had, by this time, arrived at the railway station, and the detachment was halted in the goods-yard just outside.

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For the unloading of railway trucks in a crowded goods-yard it is undoubtedly applicable.

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