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.