stockyard
noun
stock·yard
ˈstäk-ˌyärd 
: a yard for stock
specifically
: one in which transient cattle, sheep, swine, or horses are kept temporarily for slaughter, market, or shipping
Examples of stockyard in a Sentence
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The Kimpton Harper Fort Worth is in the heart of downtown and within easy walking distance of the convention center and a short driver to the famous stockyards.
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Kim Westerman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Hit the Hay Western ranchers start to get their fill of deer this month as herds of whitetails, mule deer and even elk descend from neighboring public land on second-cutting alfalfa bales stored in stockyards.
—Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019
Refrigerated trucking gave stockyard owners the flexibility to move wherever business conditions suited, which frequently meant anonymous, horizontal structures in the countryside.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Its railroads, lumberyards, and stockyards were booming, its businessmen prospering.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
At a stockyard beneath the bleachers, some cowhands cooked fish for breakfast just after sunrise.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
In Masbate, cowboys drove cattle into the stockyards around the port.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Use your 30 seconds and survey your options: Barns, factories, stockyards, and other structures with large open spaces and few interior walls are more likely to collapse than buildings designed for living.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
Masbate City is a former colonial port that had cattle stockyards near its docks until the 1970s.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Kim Westerman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Hit the Hay Western ranchers start to get their fill of deer this month as herds of whitetails, mule deer and even elk descend from neighboring public land on second-cutting alfalfa bales stored in stockyards.
—Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019
Refrigerated trucking gave stockyard owners the flexibility to move wherever business conditions suited, which frequently meant anonymous, horizontal structures in the countryside.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Its railroads, lumberyards, and stockyards were booming, its businessmen prospering.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
At a stockyard beneath the bleachers, some cowhands cooked fish for breakfast just after sunrise.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
In Masbate, cowboys drove cattle into the stockyards around the port.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Use your 30 seconds and survey your options: Barns, factories, stockyards, and other structures with large open spaces and few interior walls are more likely to collapse than buildings designed for living.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
Masbate City is a former colonial port that had cattle stockyards near its docks until the 1970s.
—Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
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stockyard
noun
stock·yard
ˈstäk-ˌyärd
: a yard in which livestock are kept temporarily for slaughter, market, or shipping
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