stockyard
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈstɑkˌjɑrd/
- US
:
corral
- There are almost as many problems still to be solved as there are flies in this building located in the heart of Chicago's stockyards.
- Chicago stockyards
- workers in the stockyards
But I'm always reminded of President Theodore Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which was about the stockyards in Chicago.
- But I'm always reminded of President Theodore Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which was about the stockyards in Chicago.
Examples
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We drive cattle into the Denver stockyards and as far as Cheyenne.
Fiction book (1996) -
The farmer took his cattle to the stockyard before loading them onto the truck for the market.
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What's the best way to the stockyard?
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Jake, we got you down here for a report on the stockyards district.
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Have you ever been downwind of a stockyard when the breeze is blowing?
Fiction book (1993) -
Saloons served as the social gathering places for hundreds of stockyard and railroad workers.
Academic text (1994) -
Another herd, probably driven up from Texas, headed for the stockyards.
Fiction book (2002) -
One day, he's commissioned to paint the daughter of a Chicago factory owner who made his fortune in the stockyards.
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John Brooke insists that Coggins was seen working in the stockyards of Fort Worth, Texas, during the early 1940s.
Academic text (2013) -
Black packinghouse workers were disproportionately lumped in the stockyards' dirtiest, wettest, and worst-paid jobs and departments.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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5.3
An enclosure for keeping farm animals like cattle or horses
16
2.1
A place where pigs live and sleep
8
3.4
A small enclosed field where animals such as horses graze or exercise
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6.3
A place where farmers keep cattle or pigs to fatten before sale
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3.1
A small fenced area where farmers keep animals before moving them
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2.1
An enclosure for keeping cattle like cows and bulls
1
5.1
A fenced area where animals like sheep wait briefly before someone moves them
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1.6
A fenced area where farmers keep cows
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1.2
A fenced area where a farmer keeps sheep
A place where animals wait before being killed or moved
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
A small fenced area that holds animals like sheep or cattle for a short time
A fenced area where pigs are kept
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stockyard comes from stock meaning 'farm animals', as in livestock, and yard meaning 'an open area'. So a stockyard is simply a yard for animals, which is why it is a place where cattle or pigs are kept before transport or slaughter.