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
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In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2020
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
The Bull’s Head, which operated from the 1750s through the first quarter of the 19th century, was part of a sprawling complex that included a stockyard.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2013
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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