stockyard

IPA: stˈɑkjɑrd

noun

  • (US) An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.
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Examples of "stockyard" in Sentences

  • The site itself is used as a stockyard for cattle.
  • The Olympic site was once a stockyard and abattoir.
  • The Stockyards continued to do well through the 1950s.
  • The facility also had the largest stockyard east of Chicago.
  • Block clubs are a cornerstone of the Stockyard neighborhood today.
  • They went early in the morning to a stockyard in the town of Tateyama.
  • Reclaimers normally travel on a rail between stockpiles in the stockyard.
  • The carrier and the stockyards company are controlled by the Swift interests.
  • From the stockyards, the livestock were transported by truck to the abattoir.
  • Many of the immigrants worked in the stockyards and the surrounding factories.
  • The sound of the ongoing party was like a logging camp next to a stockyard beside a slaughterhouse.
  • Reuters A Maruti Suzuki stockyard on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad Aug. 1, 2011.
  • Mukesh Gupta/Reuters A worker cleaned a parked car at Maruti Suzuki's stockyard on the outskirts of Jammu.
  • Reuters Parked cars at a Maruti Suzuki stockyard on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
  • Left, a worker unloaded an Alto from a container at the Maruti Suzuki stockyard near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, April 1,2011.
  • Rio said that the spending would pay for a two-berth wharf at Cape Lambert port, a new stockyard, six new heavy train units and other equipment.
  • The sky was a grayish reddish orange that made her think of the smoke that, decades before, billowed from slaughterhouse and stockyard chimneys, sweaty immigrants making their bones in a strange new land.

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