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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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
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
It was here, in what Chicagoans called a “streetcar” suburb, that stockyard supervisors chose to settle, as did officials of companies headquartered in the skyscrapers of the Loop.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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