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
The old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
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
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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