stockyard

[ stok-yahrd ]

/ ˈstɒkˌyɑrd /

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noun

an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.

a yard for livestock.

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Origin of stockyard

First recorded in 1795–1805; stock + yard²

Words nearby stockyard

stock vaccine, stock watering, stock whip, Stockwood, stocky, stockyard, stodge, stodgy, stoep, stogy, Stoic

How to use stockyard in a sentence

The opening of western grazing lands and the great stockyard complexes of the midwest had made beef the relatively cheap meat.
The Economic History of Stereotypes|Megan McArdle|June 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They rode on past a stockyard, and into a rutted street of bare frame houses, and Hetty was glad they scarcely met anybody.
The Cattle-Baron's Daughter|Harold Bindloss
We had a steak dinner and the meat in the stockyard district was totally different from anything in the East.
The Biography of a Rabbit|Roy Benson
Jim has just gone across to the stockyard, but he will be back to breakfast in a moment.
A Crime of the Under-seas|Guy Boothby

The bull was led onto the weighing platform and after being weighed, was put in one of the enclosures of the stockyard.
Ticktock and Jim|Keith Robertson
When there was an unusually large amount of stock to be sold, part of it was kept at the stockyard and driven over as required.
Ticktock and Jim|Keith Robertson

British Dictionary definitions for stockyard

stockyard

/ (ˈstɒkˌjɑːd) /

noun

a large yard with pens or covered buildings where farm animals are assembled, sold, etc

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stockyard

Origin of stockyard

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