stockyard

American  

[stok-yahrd] / ˈstɒkˌyɑrd /

noun

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

2. a yard for livestock.

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stockyard British  

/ ˈstɒkˌjɑːd /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of stockyard

First recorded in 1795–1805; stock + yard ²

Example Sentences

That’s how he started as a photography-obsessed teenager growing up near a stockyard in Omaha, and decades later it’s where he once again finds himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021

He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 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

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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