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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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
When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
For his 1906 book, “The Jungle,” Sinclair spent seven weeks working in a meatpacking plant in a Chicago stockyard.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
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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