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 old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
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
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
She had a large pleasant nose that sniffed the air at irregular intervals like a heifer catching the scent of blood in the stockyard.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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