stockyard
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈstɑkˌjɑrd/
- US
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeBut 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
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2.1
A place where pigs live and sleep
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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
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1.2
A fenced area where a farmer keeps sheep
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A fenced area where farmers keep cows
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5.1
A fenced area where animals like sheep wait briefly before someone moves them
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2.5
A fenced area where pigs are kept
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9.9
A place where animals wait before being killed or moved
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6.3
A small fenced area that holds animals like sheep or cattle for a short time
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
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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.