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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At a city Department of Water and Power stockyard last year, $55,000 in copper wire equipment was stolen, she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
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
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
Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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